Sano, Asuka http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2984-6432
Inoue, Yusuke
Kikuchi, Hirotoshi
Fukuchi, Kensuke
Funai, Kazuhito
Imai, Atsushi
Matsushita, Yuto
Tamura, Keita
Kitagawa, Masatoshi
Miyake, Hideaki
Article History
Accepted: 8 August 2022
First Online: 12 September 2022
Declarations
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: No external funding was used in the preparation of this manuscripts.
: AS, YI, HK, Kensuke F, Kazuhito F, AI, YM, KT, MK and HM declare that they have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of our institution.
: Informed consent from all of the patients has been exempted due to its retrospective design.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: AK was involved in data collection, contributed to data interpretation, and wrote the manuscript. YI, HK, Kensuke F, Kazuhito F, AI, YM and KT were involved in data collection. MK conceived the idea of the study.HM was involved in data collection and contributed to the interpretation of the results. All authors reviewed the manuscript draft and revised it critically on intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.