Kanbayashi, Yuko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-5133
Ishikawa, Takeshi
Kanazawa, Motohiro
Nakajima, Yuki
Kawano, Rumi
Tabuchi, Yusuke
Yoshioka, Tomoko
Ihara, Norihiko
Hosokawa, Toyoshi
Takayama, Koichi
Shikata, Keisuke
Taguchi, Tetsuya
Article History
Received: 19 February 2018
Accepted: 12 March 2018
First Online: 16 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Approval was obtained from the Medical Ethics Review Committee of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Institutional Medical Ethics Review Committee and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. No prospective studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors for this article.
: Informed consent was waived for individual participants included in the study, given the retrospective nature of this work and in accordance with Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Institutional Medical Ethics Review Committee standards.