Ando, Muneharu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4919-7102
Tamaki, Tetsuya
Matsumoto, Takuji
Maio, Kazuhiro
Teraguchi, Masatoshi
Takiguchi, Noboru
Iwahashi, Hiroki
Onishi, Makiko
Nakagawa, Yukihiro
Iwasaki, Hiroshi
Tsutsui, Shunji
Takami, Masanari
Yamada, Hiroshi
Article History
Received: 2 January 2018
Accepted: 6 April 2018
First Online: 17 April 2018
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee (Wakayama Rosai Hospital ethics committee) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Additional informed consent was obtained from all individual participants for whom identifying information is included in this article.