Tohya, Akina
Kohjitani, Atsushi
Ohno, Sachi
Yamashita, Kaoru
Manabe, Yozo
Sugimura, Mitsutaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K20547, 16K11756)
Article History
Received: 20 December 2017
Accepted: 10 January 2018
First Online: 22 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted with approval from the Ethics Committee of Kagoshima University Medical and Dental Hospital (no. 297). This study was registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR), UMIN000015522. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to participation.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.