Okushin, Kazuya
Tateishi, Ryosuke
Hirakawa, Shinya
Tachimori, Hisateru
Uchino, Koji
Nakagomi, Ryo
Yamada, Tomoharu
Nakatsuka, Takuma
Minami, Tatsuya
Sato, Masaya
Fujishiro, Mitsuhiro
Hasegawa, Kiyoshi
Eguchi, Yuichiro
Kanto, Tatsuya
Yoshiji, Hitoshi
Izumi, Namiki
Kudo, Masatoshi
Koike, Kazuhiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H30-Kansei-Shitei-003, 23HC2001)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2023
Accepted: 29 January 2024
First Online: 3 February 2024
Competing interests
: Shinya Hirakawa and Hisateru Tachimori belong to an endowed course funded by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, and also belong to a department that accepts financial support from National Clinical Database, Johnson & Johnson K.K., Nipro Corporation and Intuitive Surgical Sàrl. The other authors declare no competing interests.