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Hirai, Toshinori https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3898-2068
Aoyama, Takahiko
Tsuji, Yasuhiro
Ino, Kazuko
Ikejiri, Makoto
Tawara, Isao
Iwamoto, Takuya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-4410
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Accepted: 13 August 2024
First Online: 24 September 2024
Declarations
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: All authors have no conflict of interests to declare.
: No funding was received to conduct this study.
: The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available due to reasons of sensitivity and are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: The Institutional Review Board of the Mie University Hospital approved the study design (approval number: H2022-180, September 30, 2022) based on the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from each patient to participate in this study.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: Toshinori Hirai and Takuya Iwamoto contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Toshinori Hirai, Takahiko Aoyama, Yasuhiro Tsuji, Kazuko Ino, and Makoto Ikejiri. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Toshinori Hirai, Takahiko Aoyama, Isao Tawara, and Takuya Iwamoto and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
