Funatsu, Ryoh
Terasaki, Hiroto
Mihara, Naohisa
Sonoda, Shozo
Shiihara, Hideki
Sakamoto, Taiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science London (21H03095)
Article History
Received: 26 February 2024
Accepted: 27 March 2024
First Online: 8 April 2024
Declarations
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: This study was received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of Kagoshima University, Japan (Approval No. 16012). Informed consent was not obtained due to the retrospective nature of the current study, and we provided an opt-out option.
: Not applicable. We obtained the comprehensive consent and provided an opt-out option. We obtained the comprehensive consent and provided an opt-out option on the homepage and hospital bulletin boards.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.