Numakura, Satoe
Saito, Koji
Saito, Yuichi
Morita, Shigeki
Yamauchi, Yoshikane
Takeyama, Ryo
Kanamoto, Yasuyuki
Sakao, Yukinori
Article History
Received: 17 November 2025
Accepted: 2 February 2026
First Online: 4 March 2026
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee and the Declaration of Helsinki of 2013. Since this study involved only anonymized retrospective data with no change to patient care, the need for additional ethics approval was waived by the ethics committee of the Teikyo University School of Medicine.
: A sentence confirming that informed consents (Consent to Participate and Consent to Publish) were obtained from all participants or, if participants are under 18, from a parent and/or legal guardian.
: The authors declare no competing interests.