Minoda, Yosuke
Chinen, Takatoshi
Osoegawa, Takashi
Itaba, Soichi
Haraguchi, Kazuhiro
Akiho, Hirotada
Aso, Akira
Sumida, Yorinobu
Komori, Keishi
Ogino, Haruei
Ihara, Eikichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-6610
Ogawa, Yoshihiro
Article History
Received: 22 July 2019
Accepted: 13 January 2020
First Online: 21 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Kyushu University Hospital (Approval No. 29–465), Kyushu Medical Center (Approval No. 17C366), Kyushu Rosai Hospital (Approval No. 17–27), Harasanshin Hospital (Approval No. 2017–31), and Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center (Approval No. 201801056). Written informed consent for biopsy procedures was obtained from all patients. This study was approved by the ethics committees of all five hospitals.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.