Sonoda, Nao http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2254-7536
Watanabe, Soichiro
Ohno, Yuko
Hatamochi, Chieko
Sugimoto, Yoshie
Shikama, Maiko
Li, Meng
Morimoto, Akiko
Article History
Received: 7 July 2021
Accepted: 16 August 2021
First Online: 21 August 2021
Declarations
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: The authors 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 2013 Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in this study. The study protocol was written in accordance with the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Osaka University (approval date, December 24, 2017; approval no., 17233) and Osaka Prefecture University (approval date, March 2, 2018; approval no., 29–62). Informed consent was obtained from all participants who were included in the study.