Ishii, Daisuke
Miyagi, Hisayuki
Hirasawa, Masatoshi
Article History
Accepted: 1 August 2021
First Online: 26 August 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript.
: The Asahikawa Medical University Research Ethics Committee approved this study (Permit no. 20138). All the procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Clinical Research Center, Asahikawa Medical University, Japan and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The authors hereby confirm that informed consent was obtained from all the individual patients included in this study.