Kuwajima, Shiho
Oura, Daisuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3143-7577
Article History
Received: 20 February 2025
Accepted: 18 August 2025
First Online: 10 September 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the local Institutional Review Board of the Otaru General Hospital (06–017) on November 6.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Fig. 1A and B.