Tajima, Takuya
Yamaguchi, Nami
Nagasawa, Makoto
Morita, Yudai
Nakamura, Yoshihiro
Chosa, Etsuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Japanese Foundation for Research and Promotion of Endoscopy (2017 Grant B)
University of Miyazaki (Grant for Clinical Research(2016))
Article History
Received: 8 November 2018
Accepted: 23 May 2019
First Online: 4 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The experimental design was reviewed and approved (Accession No. 2014–162) by the Committee for Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine, Miyazaki University. The procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. We disclosed information regarding the conduct of this study and provided prospective research subjects of group A an opportunity to refuse inclusion in this study. We obtained written, informed consent form from all patients and guardians of group B for publication of this report and any accompanying images before entering the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.