Watanabe, Kenta
Katsui, Kuniaki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1842-2485
Sugiyama, Soichiro
Yoshio, Kotaro
Kuroda, Masahiro
Hiraki, Takao
Kiura, Katsuyuki
Maeda, Yoshinobu
Toyooka, Shinichi
Kanazawa, Susumu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tsuyama Chuo Hospital
Article History
Received: 12 December 2020
Accepted: 11 February 2021
First Online: 23 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Okayama University Hospital (approval number: 2005-011). Research was conducted in accordance with the principles of Declaration of Helsinki. Patients provided written informed consent for undergoing treatment and were provided the option to opt-out of this study via notifications displayed in the outpatient ward and on the institution’s website.
: Not applicable.
: K. Katsui belongs to the endowed course funded by Tsuyama Chuo Hospital. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.