Kono, Yoshiyasu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4717-5196
Choda, Yasuhiro
Nakagawa, Masahiro
Miyahara, Koji
Ishida, Michihiro
Kubota, Tetsushi
Seo, Keiji
Hirata, Tetsu
Obayashi, Yuka
Gotoda, Tatsuhiro
Moritou, Yuki
Okikawa, Yoshiko
Iwamoto, Yasuo
Okada, Hiroyuki
Article History
Accepted: 7 January 2021
First Online: 21 January 2021
Declarations
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: No external funding was used in the preparation of this manuscript.
: Yoshiyasu Kono, Yasuhiro Choda, Masahiro Nakagawa, Koji Miyahara, Michihiro Ishida, Tetsushi Kubota, Keiji Seo, Tetsu Hirata, Yuka Obayashi, Tatsuhiro Gotoda, Yuki Moritou, Yoshiko Okikawa, Yasuo Iwamoto, Hiroyuki Okada have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: This retrospective chart review study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Human Investigation Committee (IRB) of Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital approved this study.
: Informed consent was acquired by the opt-out method.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: YK conceived and designed the work and drafted the manuscript. MI, TK, KS, TH, YO, TG, YM, YO, and YI acquired, analyzed or interpreted the data for the work. YC, MN, and KM revised it critically for important intellectual content. MN and HO provided final approval of the version to be published.
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