Kamei, Shunsuke
Noguchi, Tomoyuki
Shida, Yoshitaka
Okafuji, Takashi
Yokoyama, Kota
Uchiyama, Fumiya
Nakatake, Hiroshi
Tajima, Tsuyoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (28A5003)
Scientific Research from Japan society for the promotion of science (16K10333)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2018
Accepted: 21 November 2018
First Online: 1 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication, and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
: This study was approved by our hospital’s institutional review board, which waived the need for written informed consent from the patients in light of the retrospective study design.