Hoshino, Tetsuro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7134-4714
Sasanabe, Ryujiro
Murotani, Kenta
Hori, Reiko
Mano, Mamiko
Nomura, Atsuhiko
Konishi, Noriyuki
Baku, Masayo
Nishio, Yoshitomo
Kato, Chihiro
Kuczynski, Wojciech
Shiomi, Toshiaki
Article History
Received: 21 October 2020
Revised: 4 May 2021
Accepted: 5 May 2021
First Online: 17 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Aichi Medical University Hospital and was conducted in accordance with the amended Declaration of Helsinki (approval number 2020–088). The IRB granted a waiver of the patients’ informed consent because of the noninvasive and retrospective nature of the study. However, we published an outline of this study plan for public viewing on the Aichi Medical University website.
: The authors declare no competing interests.