Sato, Hiroshi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7706-158X
Miyawaki, Yutaka
Lee, Seigi
Sugita, Hirofumi
Sakuramoto, Shinichi
Tsubosa, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 1 June 2021
Accepted: 27 September 2021
First Online: 1 October 2021
Declarations
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: All authors declare no financial or commercial conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the institutional review boards of the SCC and SMU. Informed consent was not obtained from the patients, as this was a retrospective data review that involved no diagnostic or therapeutic intervention and no direct patient contact. Patients were given the opportunity to refuse to participate in the study.
: Informed consent was not obtained from the patients, as this was a retrospective data review that involved no diagnostic or therapeutic intervention and no direct patient contact.
: 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 1964 and later versions.