Shimada, Shingo
Kamiyama, Toshiya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9157-7811
Yokoo, Hideki
Orimo, Tatsuya
Wakayama, Kenji
Nagatsu, Akihisa
Kakisaka, Tatsuhiko
Kamachi, Hirofumi
Abo, Daisuke
Sakuhara, Yusuke
Taketomi, Akinobu
Article History
Received: 4 April 2018
Accepted: 12 February 2019
First Online: 18 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures in studies involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Hokkaido University Hospital.This retrospective study was approved by the Hokkaido University Hospital Voluntary Clinical Study Committee with study number #016–0091. Voluntary written consent was obtained from all patients.
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