Gonda, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7671-1808
Akama, Takanori
Nakamura, Takayuki
Hashimoto, Eiko
Kyoya, Naomi
Rokkaku, Yuichi
Maejima, Yuko
Horita, Shoichiro
Tachibana, Kazunoshin
Abe, Noriko
Ohtake, Tohru
Shimomura, Kenju
Kono, Koji
Saji, Shigehira
Takenoshita, Seiichi
Higashihara, Eiji
Article History
Received: 17 May 2019
Accepted: 24 September 2019
First Online: 24 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to local ethical guidelines, all blood samples were obtained for storage and analysis only after written informed consent had been obtained from the patient and her family members. Written informed consent was obtained using a form approved by the local ethics committee: the Ethical Review Board of Japan Community Healthcare Organization Nihonmatsu Hospital (no. 00033). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation at Fukushima Medical University and with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in 2000.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient and family members for publication of this case report and any accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.