Yamaguchi, Katsuki
Sakai, Tatsuya
Fujii, Masanori https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-3147
Takashima, Satoshi
Eto, Shuichi
Matsumura, Yosuke
Nagamine, Satomi
Tanaka, Hirofumi
Article History
Received: 17 December 2024
Accepted: 20 April 2025
First Online: 8 May 2025
Declarations
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: Each author certifies that his/her institution approved the human subject protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the institutional ethical review board of the Faculty of Medicine, Saga University (no. 2022-06-R-05), and the requirement for informed consent of the participants was waived by the institutional ethical review board of the Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, owing to the retrospective nature of the study.
: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Faculty of Medicine, Saga University (no. 2022-06-R05).
: The authors declare no competing interests.