Goda, Motohiko
Minami, Tomoyuki
Imoto, Kiyotaka
Uchida, Keiji
Masuda, Munetaka
Meuris, Bart
Article History
Received: 22 May 2018
Accepted: 29 August 2018
First Online: 4 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective cohort study was performed at two centers in human subjects and was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at University Hospitals Leuven and Yokohama City University Medical Center. Informed consent for this study was waived because no individual patients were identified.
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