Nakai, Keiichi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0330-9914
Yamato, Yu
Hasegawa, Tomohiko
Yoshida, Go
Banno, Tomohiro
Arima, Hideyuki
Oe, Shin
Mihara, Yuki
Yamada, Tomohiro
Ide, Koichiro
Watanabe, Yuh
Kurosu, Kenta
Matsuyama, Yukihiro
Article History
Received: 10 June 2021
Accepted: 31 October 2021
First Online: 13 November 2021
Declarations
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: Dr. Yamato and Dr. Oe work for a donation-funded laboratory called the Division of Geriatric Musculoskeletal Health. Donations to this laboratory were received from Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, Inc., and Meitoku Medical Institution Jyuzen Memorial Hospital. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the patients.
: Patients provided signed informed consent regarding the publication of their data and photographs.