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Article History

Received: 30 October 2024

Accepted: 28 March 2025

First Online: 11 April 2025

Declarations

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: All procedures involving human participants performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Saitama Medical University Hospital (No. 19071), which waived the requirement for written informed consent from the participants owing to its retrospective design.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.