Yamazaki, Rena
Inokuchi, Masafumi
Ishikawa, Satoko
Ayabe, Takuya
Jinno, Hiromitsu
Iizuka, Takashi
Ono, Masanori
Myojo, Subaru
Uchida, Soko
Matsuzaki, Toshiya
Tangoku, Akira
Kita, Masato
Sugie, Tomoharu
Fujiwara, Hiroshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-9406
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17K11223)
Article History
Received: 22 July 2019
Accepted: 16 January 2020
First Online: 29 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Kanazawa University (no. 2197–1), Tokushima University Graduate School (no. 2958–1), Teikyo University School of Medicine (no. 15–189), and Kansai Medical University (no. 2017003). Permission of use of clinical data was obtained from each patient before operation. Informed consent of using these clinical data for this study was additionally obtained by the method of opt-out on the website from the patients according to instruction by ethical committees.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.