Yamamoto, Atsushi
Yano, Yoshihiko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5177-7480
Ueda, Yoshihide
Yasutomi, Eiichiro
Hatazawa, Yuri
Hayashi, Hiroki
Yoshida, Ryutaro
Asaji, Naoki
Shiomi, Yuuki
Tobimatsu, Kazutoshi
Sakai, Arata
Kodama, Yuzo
Article History
Received: 2 October 2020
Accepted: 29 October 2020
First Online: 22 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the institutional review board of the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and by the institutional review boards of the participating hospitals (no. B200118). The need to collect informed consent from the patients was waived because this was a retrospective study. Information about this study was published in our institute, and patients could ask for their data to be withdrawn from the analysis.