Edo, Hiromi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-2700
Urase, Yasuyo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1014-9258
Ueno, Yoshiko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1785-1234
Kido, Ayumu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2402-4819
Tamada, Tsutomu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-9570
Asano, Yudai http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3431-9875
Ida, Kentaro
Ito, Hisataka http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6958-9966
Koyama, Takashi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0788-4403
Miyai, Kosuke
Tsuda, Hitoshi
Shinmoto, Hiroshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-2913
Article History
Received: 23 December 2021
Revised: 10 February 2022
Accepted: 14 February 2022
First Online: 28 February 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study complied with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by our institutions’ ethics committees (National Defense Medical College: 4457; Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine: B210228; Kawasaki Medical School: 5498-00; Fukuyama City Hospital: 627; and Kurashiki Central Hospital: 3756). Written informed consent for participation was waived owing to the retrospective nature of the study, and patient records were anonymously analyzed.