Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki
Kamai, Takao
Higashi, Satoru
Murakami, Satoshi
Arai, Kyoko
Shirataki, Hiromichi
Yoshida, Ken-Ichiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKENHI (17K11156)
Article History
Received: 18 January 2019
Accepted: 8 November 2019
First Online: 21 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the institutional ethical review board of Dokkyo Medical University Hospital. Each patient signed a consent form that was approved by our institutional Committee on Human Rights in Research. All samples were anonymized before analysis was performed, to guarantee the protection of privacy.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.