Yasuda, Hiroyuki
Hoshino, Masatoshi
Tsujio, Tadao
Terai, Hidetomi
Namikawa, Takashi
Kato, Minori
Matsumura, Akira
Suzuki, Akinobu
Takayama, Kazushi
Takahashi, Shinji
Nakamura, Hiroaki
Article History
Received: 17 July 2017
Accepted: 2 December 2017
First Online: 28 December 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study design was preapproved by the Ethical Committee for Clinical Research at the respective institutes. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (in its most recently amended version). Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study.
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