Kato, Kazuhiko
Yaginuma, Tatsuhiro
Kobayashi, Arisa
Nakashima, Akio
Ohkido, Ichiro
Yokoo, Takashi
Article History
Received: 28 December 2023
Accepted: 15 February 2024
First Online: 21 March 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable.
: All procedures involving human participants were approved by the institutional review board of our hospital (approval number: 34–387 [11544]) and conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: As this was a retrospective study, the need to obtain informed consent from patients was waived by the institutional review board.