Ota, Kazuhiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5628-9662
Takeuchi, Toshihisa
Kojima, Yuichi
Harada, Satoshi
Hirata, Yuki
Sugawara, Noriaki
Nouda, Sadaharu
Kakimoto, Kazuki
Kuramoto, Takanori
Higuchi, Kazuhide
Article History
Received: 21 August 2018
Accepted: 25 December 2018
First Online: 8 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed in accordance with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 1983), and the protocol was approved by the ethics review committee at Osaka Medical College (No. 730) and was registered in the University hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN000033984). All 30 subjects received oral and written information about the study and signed informed consent forms.
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