Gotou, Masayuki
Suzuki, Atsushi
Shiga, Tsuyoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0358-7196
Wakabayashi, Rumi
Nakazawa, Mayui
Kikuchi, Noriko
Hagiwara, Nobuhisa
Article History
Accepted: 9 September 2021
First Online: 6 October 2021
Declarations
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: This research received no grants from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: Masayuki Gotou, Atsushi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shiga, Rumi Wakabayashi, Mayui Nakazawa, Noriko Kikuchi, and Nobuhisa Hagiwara have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Tokyo Women’s Medical University (5402) because of the retrospective nature of the study, and all the procedures being performed were part of routine care.
: The requirement for written informed consent was waived because of the retrospective design.
: Not applicable.
: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: AS and TS conceived of and designed the study. MG collected and organized the patient data from the patient files. MG and AS analyzed the data. RW, MN, and NK contributed to the interpretation of the data. TS was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. NH supervised the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.