Sanuki, Fumiaki
Mikami, Yuka
Nishimura, Hirotake
Fujita, Yoshinori
Monobe, Yasumasa
Nomura, Tsunehisa
Taira, Naruto
Moriya, Takuya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7357-3243
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (21K06934)
Research Project Grants from Kawasaki Medical School (R04G002)
Article History
Received: 20 May 2023
Accepted: 16 August 2023
First Online: 29 August 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: This study was conducted after obtaining approval from the Ethics Committee of Kawasaki Medical School and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (approval number 5013–03).
: Although this was a retrospective study, each patient provided informed consent for study inclusion before surgery. A summary of the study protocol was published on a web page, which explained the study and provided an opportunity for dissenting opinions to be expressed.