Saigo, Sae http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-7007
Nitta, Manabu
Shigenaga, Atsuichiro
Ishikawa, Toshiyuki
Tamura, Kouichi
Kimura, Kazuo
Article History
Received: 7 April 2020
Revised: 12 July 2020
Accepted: 10 August 2020
First Online: 19 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Sae Saigo, Manabu Nitta, Atsuichiro Shigenaga, Toshiyuki Ishikawa, Kouichi Tamura, and Kazuo Kimura declare that they have no conflict 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 1964 and later revisions. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.