Kawakami, Takehiro
Imagama, Takashi
Matsuki, Yuta
Okazaki, Tomoya
Kaneoka, Takehiro
Yamazaki, Kazuhiro
Ueda, Masaya
Sakai, Takashi
Article History
Received: 23 July 2024
Accepted: 29 October 2024
First Online: 5 November 2024
Declarations
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: This retrospective, case-control study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine (the ethics committee of Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, reference number: H2020-068-2). The ethical standards from the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments were upheld. Informed consent was obtained from all participants for this study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Figs. and .
: The authors declare no competing interests.