Komiyama, Keisuke
Hamai, Satoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6302-2539
Hara, Daisuke
Ikebe, Satoru
Higaki, Hidehiko
Yoshimoto, Kensei
Shiomoto, Kyohei
Gondo, Hirotaka
Wang, Yifeng
Nakashima, Yasuharu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 25870499, No. 15K10450)
Nakatomi Foundation
Japan Orthopaedics and Traumatology Foundation (No. 263)
Article History
Received: 22 March 2018
Accepted: 25 June 2018
First Online: 3 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of our institution and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Kyushu University (IRB number 24–55). The subject was given informed consent to participate in this IRB approved study and was informed of the risk of radiation exposure required.
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