Kobayashi, Taiga https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0981-1614
Kunihiro, Yoshie
Takemitsu, Masaki
Uehara, Takuya
Tanabe, Masahiro
Ito, Katsuyoshi
Article History
Received: 18 August 2025
Accepted: 4 November 2025
First Online: 21 November 2025
Declarations
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: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by Institutional Review Board of Yamaguchi University Hospital, approval number 2024-164, Date: January 15th, 2025.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The requirement for informed consent was waived because of the retrospective study design.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.