Nishizawa, Tomotaka http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-9047
Niikura, Yuichi
Akasaka, Keiichi
Watanabe, Masato
Kurai, Daisuke
Amano, Masako
Ishii, Haruyuki
Matsushima, Hidekazu
Yamashita, Naomi
Takizawa, Hajime
Article History
Received: 23 April 2019
Accepted: 29 July 2019
First Online: 2 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects or their surrogates. The ethics committee of the Japanese Red Cross Society Saitama Hospital and Musashino University, ID n.17-c approved this study and the informed consent procedure. All phases of the study were carried out in accordance with the principles expressed in the WMA Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.