Harada, Rie
Kimura, Masako
Sato, Yasushi
Taniguchi, Tatsuya
Tomonari, Tetsu
Tanaka, Takahiro
Tanaka, Hironori
Muguruma, Naoki
Shinomiya, Hirohiko
Honda, Hirohito
Imoto, Issei
Sogabe, Masahiro
Okahisa, Toshiya
Takayama, Tetsuji
Article History
Received: 24 November 2017
Accepted: 18 January 2018
First Online: 30 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was conducted according to the guidelines contained within the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the institutional review board of Tokushima University Hospital (Approval number H-26). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants before entry into the study.
: Not applicable.
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