Hotta, Chiharu
Hiraki, Koji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6083-8097
Izawa, Kazuhiro P.
Sakurada, Tsutomu
Shibagaki, Yugo
Article History
Received: 18 June 2020
Accepted: 20 July 2020
First Online: 3 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare no conflicts of interest in relation to the work reported in this manuscript.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The present study was approved by the St. Marianna University School of Medicine Institutional Committee on Human Research (approval number 1965).
: Informed consent was obtained from each patient.