Mizuno, Mitsuru
Katano, Hisako
Mabuchi, Yo
Ogata, Yusuke
Ichinose, Shizuko
Fujii, Shizuka
Otabe, Koji
Komori, Keiichiro
Ozeki, Nobutake
Koga, Hideyuki
Tsuji, Kunikazu
Akazawa, Chihiro
Muneta, Takeshi
Sekiya, Ichiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6331-722X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16H06262)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2017
Revised: 4 April 2018
Accepted: 12 April 2018
First Online: 2 May 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). Written informed consent forms were submitted by all the participating patients.
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