Marutani, Yuka
Mizoshita, Tsutomu
Sugiyama, Tomoya
Togawa, Shozo
Katano, Takahito
Yamada, Tomonori
Hirata, Yoshikazu
Kimura, Yoshihide
Miyaki, Tomokatsu
Inoue, Yusuke
Suzuki, Erina
Sasaki, Makoto
Kataoka, Hiromi
Article History
Received: 15 April 2020
Accepted: 8 September 2020
First Online: 27 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: YM, TM, TS, TK, TY, YH, YK, TM, YI, ES, MS, and HK declare that they have no conflict of interest.This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at each hospital and was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonization and ethical principles originating in the Declaration of Helsinki. All participating patients were recruited after informed consent was obtained.
: The study was performed conforming to the Helsinki declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008 concerning human and animal rights, and the authors followed the policy concerning informed consent as shown on Springer.com.
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