Kuribara, Tomoyoshi
Mikami, Takeshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8608-1037
Komatsu, Katsuya
Suzuki, Hime
Ohnishi, Hirofumi
Houkin, Kiyohiro
Mikuni, Nobuhiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K10732)
Article History
Received: 11 April 2017
Accepted: 31 July 2017
First Online: 4 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Sapporo Medical University Hospital (IRB number: 282–166). All patients provided written informed consent to participate in the study, and the privacy of the patients was strictly protected.
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