Nakajima, Masanobu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4204-7184
Muroi, Hiroto
Kikuchi, Maiko
Yamaguchi, Satoru
Sasaki, Kinro
Tsuchioka, Takashi
Takei, Yusuke
Shibasaki, Ikuko
Fukuda, Hirotsugu
Kato, Hiroyuki
Article History
Received: 22 May 2018
Accepted: 8 September 2018
First Online: 15 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Masanobu Nakajima, Hiroto Muroi, Maiko Kikuchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kinro Sasaki, Takashi Tsuchioka, Yusuke Takei, Ikuko Shibasaki, Hirotsugu Fukuda, and Hiroyuki Kato declare 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 1975, as revised in 2008. Before the operations, we obtained a general consent form from the patients for the use of their clinical data for clinical studies and registrations.