Koizumi, Yohei
Hirooka, Masashi
Tanaka, Takaaki
Watanabe, Takao
Yoshida, Osamu
Tokumoto, Yoshio
Higaki, Takashi
Eguchi, Mariko
Abe, Masanori
Hiasa, Yoichi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4117-339X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K19825, 18K07634, JP18K08007)
Article History
Received: 29 October 2020
Accepted: 16 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Yohei Koizumi, Masashi Hirooka, Takaaki Tanaka, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Takashi Higaki, Mariko Eguchi, Masanori Abe and Yoichi Hiasa declare that they have no conflicts 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. This study was approved by the Ethical Review Board of Ehime University (permit number: 1607006). Informed consent to be included in the study was obtained from all patients.