Dote, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7161-7935
Itakura, Shoji
Kamei, Kohei
Hira, Daiki
Noda, Satoshi
Kobayashi, Yuka
Terada, Tomohiro
Article History
Received: 12 August 2017
Accepted: 26 September 2018
First Online: 5 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study is a retrospective cohort study, carried out by the opt-out method of a poster presentation at Kyoto-Katsura Hospital. The Ethics Committee of Kyoto-Katsura Hospital approved this retrospective study, and it was exempted from obtaining informed consent from each patient in consideration of the aim and methods of the study (Approval number: 501).
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