Nakanishi, Hideo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0158-8278
Suda, Kenji
Yoshikawa, Munemitsu
Akagi, Tadamichi
Kameda, Takanori
Ikeda, Hanako Ohashi
Yokota, Satoshi
Kurimoto, Yasuo
Tsujikawa, Akitaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25462713)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Article History
Received: 13 May 2017
Revised: 3 December 2017
Accepted: 11 December 2017
First Online: 5 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest, or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in this retrospective, observation study involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. For this type of study, formal consent is not required in our institution.