Sugimoto, Kiichi
Ito, Tomoaki
Hulbert, Alicia
Chen, Chen
Orita, Hajime
Maeda, Masahiro
Moro, Hiroshi
Fukagawa, Takeo
Ushijima, Toshikazu
Katai, Hitoshi
Wada, Ryo
Sato, Koichi
Sakamoto, Kazuhiro
Yu, Wayne
Considine, Michael
Cope, Leslie
Brock, Malcolm V.
Article History
Received: 26 December 2018
Accepted: 3 March 2019
First Online: 12 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of 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.