Tanaka, Chie
Kanda, Mitsuro
Murotani, Kenta
Yoshikawa, Takaki
Cho, Haruhiko
Ito, Yuichi
Matsui, Takanori
Nakayama, Hiroshi
Yamada, Takanobu
Kobayashi, Daisuke
Fujiwara, Michitaka
Kodera, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 6 August 2018
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 31 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Kodera reports grants and personal fees from Johnson & Johnson, Covidien, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory. Other authors declare that there is no conflict interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent to be included in the study, or the equivalent, was obtained from all patients.