Toguchi, Kaoru
Nakajima, Arata
Akatsu, Yorikazu
Sonobe, Masato
Yamada, Manabu
Takahashi, Hiroshi
Saito, Junya
Aoki, Yasuchika
Suguro, Toru
Nakagawa, Koichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan (JP17K11032)
Article History
Received: 3 October 2019
Accepted: 30 December 2019
First Online: 6 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval for the study was received from.the Institutional Review Board at Toho University Sakura Medical Center (approval number: S17012). Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients before surgery. All activities were performed in accordance with the ethical standards set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.