Yamada, Toru
Minami, Taro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-939X
Soni, Nilam J.
Hiraoka, Eiji
Takahashi, Hiromizu
Okubo, Tomoya
Sato, Juichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (HX002263-01A1)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2017
Accepted: 10 August 2018
First Online: 22 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center. Written informed consent was obtained from all study subjects before participation.
: Not applicable.
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