Oshima, Minoru https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9114-7985
Okano, Keiichi
Suto, Hironobu
Ando, Yasuhisa
Kamada, Hideki
Masaki, Tsutomu
Takahashi, Shigeo
Shibata, Toru
Suzuki, Yasuyuki
Article History
Received: 7 September 2020
Accepted: 1 December 2020
First Online: 14 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in compliance with the International Conference on Harmonization guidelines for Good Clinical Practice (E6) and the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki. All patients provided written informed consent before inclusion in the study, which was approved by the institutional review board of Kagawa University (Approval No 2009-14).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript.