Hirai, Takuya
Ikeda, Keigo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-7147
Tsushima, Hiroshi
Fujishiro, Maki
Hayakawa, Kunihiro
Yoshida, Yuko
Morimoto, Shinji
Yamaji, Ken
Takasaki, Yoshinari
Takamori, Kenji
Tamura, Naoto
Sekigawa, Iwao
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT (S1311011)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP15K08107, JP26860265)
Article History
Received: 4 September 2017
Accepted: 7 November 2017
First Online: 8 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this study was granted by the institutional review board of the Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital. Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
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