Namikawa, Tsutomu
Maeda, Hiromichi
Kitagawa, Hiroyuki
Oba, Koji
Tsuji, Akihito
Yoshikawa, Takaki
Kobayashi, Michiya
Hanazaki, Kazuhiro
Article History
Received: 31 May 2017
Accepted: 8 February 2018
First Online: 13 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Patients consented with the anonymous use of their data for study purposes. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Kochi Medical School Hospital (accepted number: 28–111), and was undertaken in accordance with the Helsinki declaration and the Japanese Good Clinical Practice Guidelines.
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