Oishi, Masahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9776-2399
Hayashi, Yasuhiko
Sasagawa, Yasuo
Oikawa, Nozomu
Nakada, Mitsutoshi
Article History
Received: 3 March 2022
Accepted: 18 May 2022
First Online: 18 June 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the medical ethics committee at Kanazawa University (approval number: #2016-244 [2227]) and Kanazawa Medical University Hospital (approval number: #1556), and most participants provided written informed consent. Medical Ethics Committee of Kanazawa University waived the requirement of an informed consent considering the retrospective evaluation of patient data for the remaining patients, and written informed consent was not obtained from a relative/guardian. This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and in compliance with requirements for retrospective studies on human subjects.