Masuda, Sakue https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-0154
Koizumi, Kazuya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3677-5030
Uojima, Haruki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1719-1352
Tazawa, Tomohiko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4053-8388
Tasaki, Junichi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0031-3536
Ichita, Chikamasa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9210-7371
Nishino, Takashi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6717-1096
Kimura, Karen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3059-495X
Sasaki, Akiko https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4219-554X
Egashira, Hideto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6498-6230
Kako, Makoto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6447-8471
Article History
Received: 13 May 2019
Accepted: 28 June 2019
First Online: 20 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest in association with the present study.
: All of the patients gave their informed consent for inclusion in the study.
: 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 1975, as revised in 2008.