Shimizu, Takayuki
Aoki, Taku http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2868-5246
Park, Kyung-Hwa
Matsumoto, Takatsugu
Shiraki, Takayuki
Sakuraoka, Yuhki
Mori, Shozo
Iso, Yukihiro
Ishizuka, Mitsuru
Kubota, Keiichi
Article History
Received: 10 May 2021
Accepted: 6 August 2021
First Online: 23 August 2021
Declarations
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: Takayuki Shimizu, Taku Aoki, Kyung‑Hwa Park, Takatsugu Matsumoto, Takayuki Shiraki, Yuhki Sakuraoka,·Shozo Mori, Yukihiro Iso, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Keiichi Kubotas declare no conflict of interests for this article.
: Our study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (provided ID number: R-8-14) on the basis of the Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan prior to its initiation.
: We provided the enrolled patients with the opportunity to opt out on our website ExternalRef removed().
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