Hayashino, Kenta
Terao, Toshiki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6728-3346
Nishimori, Hisakazu
Kitamura, Wataru
Kobayashi, Hiroki
Kamoi, Chihiro
Seike, Keisuke
Fujiwara, Hideaki
Asada, Noboru
Ennishi, Daisuke
Fujii, Keiko
Fujii, Nobuharu
Matsuoka, Ken-ichi
Maeda, Yoshinobu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Okayama University
Article History
Received: 1 October 2024
Revised: 22 November 2024
Accepted: 24 November 2024
First Online: 16 December 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the institutional review board (#2310-025).
: This is a retrospective observational study and obtaining written consent was not mandatory. All participants did not provide any denial to this study documents that were made available to them on an opt-out manner on the Web. The opt-out method was approved by the institutional review board.