Watanabe, Tomonori
Hoshide, Satoshi
Hachiya, Hitoshi
Yumita, Yoshiyuki
Sato, Masafumi
Mitama, Tadayuki
Okuyama, Takafumi
Watanabe, Hiroaki
Yokota, Ayako
Kamioka, Masashi
Komori, Takahiro
Makimoto, Hisaki
Kabutoya, Tomoyuki
Imai, Yasushi
Kario, Kazuomi
Article History
Received: 29 September 2023
Revised: 4 February 2024
Accepted: 13 February 2024
First Online: 26 March 2024
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All patients gave their written informed consent. The study protocol was approved by the hospital’s institutional ethics review board. This study conformed to the guidelines outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.