Kosuga, Toshiyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1657-7272
Konishi, Tomoki
Kubota, Takeshi
Shoda, Katsutoshi
Konishi, Hirotaka
Shiozaki, Atsushi
Okamoto, Kazuma
Fujiwara, Hitoshi
Kudou, Michihiro
Arita, Tomohiro
Morimura, Ryo
Murayama, Yasutoshi
Kuriu, Yoshiaki
Ikoma, Hisashi
Nakanishi, Masayoshi
Otsuji, Eigo
Article History
Received: 28 August 2019
Accepted: 26 November 2019
First Online: 5 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This retrospective study was approved by the Medical Ethics Review Committee of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Approved No. ERB-C-1373). It was determined to be a retrospective analysis of de-identified data, and written informed consent was waived for the individual participants included in the study in accordance with the standards of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Institutional Medical Ethics Review Committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.