Ushirozako, Hiroki
Hasegawa, Tomohiko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-431X
Yamato, Yu
Yoshida, Go
Yasuda, Tatsuya
Banno, Tomohiro
Arima, Hideyuki
Oe, Shin
Mihara, Yuki
Yamada, Tomohiro
Ide, Koichiro
Watanabe, Yuh
Nakai, Keichi
Matsuyama, Yukihiro
Article History
Received: 27 April 2020
Revised: 21 August 2020
Accepted: 26 September 2020
First Online: 6 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Yamato and Dr. Oe work for a donation-funded laboratory called the “Division of Geriatric Musculoskeletal Health”. Donations to this laboratory were received from Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, Inc., and Meitoku Medical Institution Jyuzen Memorial Hospital. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Patients signed informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (No. 14-306). The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.