Kuki, Atsumi
Tanaka, Kentaro
Kushiyama, Akifumi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1385-7487
Tanaka, Yoshihide
Motonishi, Shuta
Sugano, Yasuji
Furuya, Toru
Ozawa, Takashi
Article History
Received: 1 January 2019
Accepted: 2 May 2019
First Online: 30 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee at Medical Toyou, Japan. Permission to conduct the study was obtained from each site based on the approval. Each patient had provided their signed written informed consent before they participated in this study.
: Not applicable.
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