Miyamoto, Hironari
Toyokawa, Takahiro
Ishidate, Takemi
Kuroda, Kenji
Miki, Yuichiro
Yoshii, Mami
Tamura, Tatsuro
Lee, Shigeru
Maeda, Kiyoshi
Article History
Received: 1 June 2024
Accepted: 6 November 2024
First Online: 13 November 2024
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine (approval no. 2023-013) and conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Due to the retrospective nature of the study, we used the opt-out approach to disclose the study information instead of written informed consent. We obtained an " informed consent waiver" from the Ethical Committee of Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.