Fukuda, Motoki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0285-5008
Kotaki, Shinya
Nozawa, Michihito
Kuwada, Chiaki
Kise, Yoshitaka
Ariji, Eiichiro
Ariji, Yoshiko
Article History
Received: 14 November 2023
Accepted: 24 March 2024
First Online: 12 April 2024
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. These include grants, patent licensing arrangements, consultancies, stock or other equity ownership, advisory board memberships, or payments for conducting or publicizing the study.
: This study was approved by Aichi Gakuin University’s ethics committee (approval no. 586). All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, as amended in 2008. As this study was a retrospective study, informed consent could not be obtained from all patients. The purposes and methods of this study were made public, and patients were given the right to opt out of participation.