Shimomura, Osamu
Numajiri, Haruko
Hashimoto, Shinji
Miyazaki, Yoshihiro
Doi, Manami
Nakahashi, Hiromitsu
Takahashi, Kazuhiro
Hiroshima, Yuichi
Hasegawa, Naoyuki
Endo, Masato
Niisato, Yusuke
Hagiwara, Yuya
Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki
Yamada, Takeshi
Sakamoto, Noriaki
Matsubara, Daisuke
Mathis, Bryan J.
Tsuchiya, Kiichiro
Sakurai, Hideyuki
Oda, Tatsuya
Article History
Received: 23 May 2025
Accepted: 14 August 2025
First Online: 1 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study has been done in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki on research ethics. All patients’ data was collected after approval from the Institutional Review Board (Ethical committee, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Approval #R01-030). Due to the nature of retrospective study, the acquisition of informed consent from patients was waived.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All authors declare that no conflicts of interest exist.