Ryu, Bikei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0323-6628
Mochizuki, Tatsuki
Shima, Shogo
Sato, Shinsuke
Inoue, Tatsuya
Kawamata, Takakazu
Niimi, Yasunari
Article History
Received: 9 January 2024
Accepted: 1 March 2024
First Online: 9 April 2024
Declarations
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: B. Ryu, T. Mochizuki, S. Shima, S. Sato, T. Inoue, T. Kawamata, and Y. Niimi declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Research Committee (Saint Luke’s International Hospital, No. 19-R200) and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The need for written informed consent was waived due to the retrospective design of the study.