Inoue, Gen
Saito, Wataru
Miyagi, Masayuki
Imura, Takayuki
Shirasawa, Eiki
Ikeda, Shinsuke
Mimura, Yusuke
Kuroda, Akiyoshi
Yokozeki, Yuji
Inoue, Sho
Akazawa, Tsutomu
Nakazawa, Toshiyuki
Uchida, Kentaro
Takaso, Masashi
Article History
Received: 23 April 2021
Accepted: 4 October 2021
First Online: 14 October 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study complied with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and were approved by Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Observation and Epidemiological Study in Kitasato university. Under Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects enacted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Japan, written informed consent was considered unnecessary in this study and the detailed study design was disclosed on the website of IRB of Kitasato University and at the reception area of the outpatient clinic of Orthopaedic department in Kitasato University Hospital. All participants were given the opportunity of opt-out provision of their data for 3 months after IRB approval, and informed consent was considered obtained if patients did not provide an opt-out to this study.
: All participants were given the opportunity to opt out of provision of their data if they did not wish a manuscript including their data to be published.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.