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Accepted: 12 January 2025

First Online: 1 February 2025

Declarations

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: No funding was received to assist with the preparation of this manuscript.

: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.

: All data pertaining to this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ogaki Municipal Hospital (Ogaki, Japan; approval no. 20240530-4-h), Nagoya University Hospital (Nagoya, Japan; approval no. 2023-0474), Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital (Kobe, Japan; approval no. zn240803), and Nagoya City University Hospital (Nagoya, Japan; approval no. 60-24-0049). The requirement for obtaining informed consent was waived due to the retrospective study design.

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: Conceptualization and design: EU, AM, TJ, HA, MK. Data acquisition: EU, TJ, MM, MH, YT. Methodology: EU, MM, MH, NM, YT, YH, MK. Formal analysis and interpretation of the data: EU, TJ, MM, MH, NM, YT, YH, MK. Validation: EU, AM, TJ, HA, MM, MH, NM, YT, YH, MK. Writing – original draft: EU, MK. Writing – review and editing: EU, MM, MH, NM, YT, YH, MK. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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