Higuchi, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7914-8256
Kabeya, Yusuke
Matsushita, Kenichi
Tachibana, Keisei
Kawachi, Riken
Takei, Hidefumi
Suzuki, Yutaka
Abe, Nobutsugu
Imanishi, Yorihisa
Moriyama, Kiyoshi
Yorozu, Tomoko
Saito, Koichiro
Sugiyama, Masanori
Kondo, Haruhiko
Yoshino, Hideaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K18085)
Article History
Received: 5 April 2018
Accepted: 11 June 2018
First Online: 26 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki in line with the Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research by the Japanese government. This study was approved by the ethics committee of Kyorin University Hospital (approval number: 488) and registered on University Medical Information Network (UMIN ID: UMIN000016146). Written informed consent was obtained from patients before each surgery by the physicians.
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