Watanabe, Shunsuke
Miyoshi, Jun
Toki, Masao
Kambayashi, Komei
Kitada, Shuichi
Nosaka, Takeshi
Goto, Tomoyuki
Ota, Hirotaka
Ochiai, Kazushige
Gondo, Koichi
Ikeuchi, Nobuhito
Tsuji, Shujiro
Nakamura, Kenji
Shibahara, Junji
Hisamatsu, Tadakazu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-5141
Article History
Received: 10 August 2020
Accepted: 15 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and content to participate
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kyorin University School of Medicine (IRB No. 1099) on 27 March 2018. This study was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. The IRB approved the use of an opt-out method of consent and informed consent was obtained using an opt-out method with the written document on the research.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.