Wada, Osamu
Yamada, Minoru
Kamitani, Tsukasa
Mizuno, Kiyonori
Kurita, Noriaki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-7500
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP15K16518)
Article History
Received: 23 July 2020
Revised: 8 September 2020
Accepted: 17 September 2020
First Online: 29 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: The study was approved by the local institutional review board (No. 57, 26 January 2017) and by the Research Ethics Committee of Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine (No. 2850, 28 September 2016).
: Obtaining patients’ informed consent for the present study was not mandatory according to the “Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human subjects” in Japan. However, all patients provided written informed consent prior to participation.
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