Kasahara, Yukiyo
Osuka, Satoko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4430-7982
Bayasula,
Nakanishi, Natsuki
Murase, Tomohiko
Nakamura, Tomoko
Goto, Maki
Kotani, Tomomi
Iwase, Akira
Kikkawa, Fumitaka
Article History
Received: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 24 July 2020
First Online: 31 July 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the ethical committee of Nagoya University Hospital (approval reference number 422), registered as a clinical trial (UMIN000029464) on April 4, 2018. All procedures were performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki regarding human experimentation.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to enrollment.
: Prism software (Prism 8; GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA USA) and EZR software (Version 1.40; Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan), the latter of which is a graphical user interface for R (The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria).