Mori, Katsuhito
Nishide, Kozo
Okuno, Senji
Shoji, Tetsuo
Emoto, Masanori
Tsuda, Akihiro
Nakatani, Shinya
Imanishi, Yasuo
Ishimura, Eiji
Yamakawa, Tomoyuki
Shoji, Shigeichi
Inaba, Masaaki
Article History
Received: 1 November 2017
Accepted: 27 February 2019
First Online: 28 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The cohort wasn’t originally for this study and the participant consent was verbal. Therefore, modified protocol was retrospectively approved by the ethics committee of Shirasagi Hospital (registration number J2017015). Approval for an opt-out consent method was given.
: Not applicable.
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