Kawamura, Ai
Imai, Koichiro
Kume, Teruyoshi
Tanemoto, Kazuo
Tamada, Tomoko
Okamoto, Hiroshi
Uemura, Shiro
Article History
Received: 23 December 2016
Revised: 27 February 2018
Accepted: 26 March 2018
First Online: 8 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Ai Kawamura, Koichiro Imai, Teruyoshi Kume, Kazuo Tanemoto, Tomoko Tamada, Hiroshi Okamoto, and Shiro Uemura declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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 1964 and later revisions. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.