Tsukada, Jitsuro
Yamada, Yoshitake http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5842-5349
Kawakami, Takashi
Matsumoto, Shunsuke
Inoue, Masanori
Nakatsuka, Seishi
Okada, Masahiro
Fukuda, Keiichi
Jinzaki, Masahiro
Article History
Received: 17 August 2020
Revised: 22 December 2020
Accepted: 21 January 2021
First Online: 10 February 2021
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yoshitake Yamada.
: Masahiro Jinzaki is a recipient of a grant from Canon Medical Systems. However, Canon Medical Systems was not involved in the design and implementation of this study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, or the preparation, review, and approval of the manuscript.All other authors are not associated with companies or other entities.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: The study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol for this prospective observational study was approved by the Ethics Committee of our institution (No. 20120224).
: • retrospective• observational• performed at one institution