Umeda, Shinichi
Kanda, Mitsuro
Sugimoto, Hiroyuki
Tanaka, Haruyoshi
Hayashi, Masamichi
Yamada, Suguru
Fujii, Tsutomu
Takami, Hideki
Niwa, Yukiko
Iwata, Naoki
Tanaka, Chie
Kobayashi, Daisuke
Fujiwara, Michitaka
Kodera, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 21 October 2016
Accepted: 28 August 2017
First Online: 1 September 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study conformed to the ethical guidelines of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects and has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Nagoya University, Japan (No. 2013–0295). Written informed consent for usage of clinical samples and data, and publication as required by the institutional review board, was obtained from all patients.
: Not Applicable.
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