Souma, Ryosuke
Sugiyama, Kumiya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0624-946X
Masuda, Hiroyuki
Arifuku, Hajime
Nakano, Kentaro
Watanabe, Hiroyoshi
Wakayama, Tomoshige
Tokita, Shingo
Tatewaki, Masamitsu
Satoh, Hideyuki
Koyama, Kenya
Hayashi, Yumeko
Fukushima, Fumiya
Hirata, Hirokuni
Arima, Masafumi
Kurasawa, Kazuhiro
Fukuda, Takeshi
Fukushima, Yasutsugu
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 7 May 2018
First Online: 21 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This prospective study was approved by the ethics committee of Dokkyo Medical University Hospital (No. 22072) and the ethics committee of Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital (No. 1409). This study was registered at the University Hospital Medical Information Network Center, Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR: No. UMIN000009599).
: Written informed consent for participation in the study was obtained from all patients.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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