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Nishi, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0676-4664
Hayashi, Shogo
Omotehara, Takuya
Kawata, Shinichi
Suematsu, Yoshihiro
Itoh, Masahiro
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Article History
Received: 19 July 2020
Accepted: 30 October 2020
First Online: 11 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Tokyo Medical University (Approval No. T2019-0097) and Tsukuba Memorial Hospital (Approval No. H31-01-05) and was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The data were abstracted from the medical records of Tsukuba Memorial Hospital under the approval of the Institutional Review Board of Tsukuba Memorial Hospital. Written informed consent was not required by either Ethics Committee given the retrospective nature of the study and the fact that all of the procedures being performed were part of routine care. Informed consent was obtained from all patients using the opt-out method, and information concerning the opt-out procedure was provided on the homepage of Tsukuba Memorial Hospital.
: The patients gave their informed consent for the publication of the details and images related to this study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
