Nakakubo, Sho
Suzuki, Masaru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-6793
Kamada, Keisuke
Yamashita, Yu
Nakamura, Junichi
Horii, Hiroshi
Sato, Kazuki
Matsumoto, Munehiro
Abe, Yuki
Tsuji, Kosuke
Ishiguro, Nobuhisa
Nasuhara, Yasuyuki
Konno, Satoshi
Article History
Received: 29 June 2020
Accepted: 9 November 2020
First Online: 18 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hokkaido University Hospital. The study was based on existing samples collected in the course of routine practice and no additional risks are posed to patients. Therefore, the individual’s informed consent was waived by the above ethics committee. Informed consent for study participation was officially announced on the website. All patient data were anonymized prior to analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.