Haraguchi, Masafumi
Miuma, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-7299
Masumoto, Hiroshi
Ichikawa, Tatsuki
Kanda, Yasuko
Sasaki, Ryu
Fukushima, Masanori
Miyaaki, Hisamitsu
Taura, Naota
Nakao, Kazuhiko
Article History
Received: 13 February 2019
Accepted: 17 June 2019
First Online: 9 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Authors Dr. Haraguchi, Dr. Miuma, Dr. Masumoto, Dr. Ichikawa, Dr. Kanda, Dr. Sasaki, Dr. Fukushima, Dr. Miyaaki, Dr. Taura, and Dr. Nakao declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All patients provided informed consent, and our study protocol conformed to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Nagasaki University Ethics Committee (approval no. 13120201).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.