Watanabe, Ken
Otabe, Koji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6694-8078
Shimizu, Norio
Komori, Keiichirou
Mizuno, Mitsuru
Katano, Hisako
Koga, Hideyuki
Sekiya, Ichiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
AMED (1U011、3U102)
MEXT (15H04953)
Article History
Received: 22 November 2017
Revised: 14 February 2018
Accepted: 20 February 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was properly approved and certificated to be in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration by the institutional review board of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (reference number: M2000–2121, G2000–211). Written informed consent forms were submitted by all the participating patients.
: All the participating patients agreed to this study being published.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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