Yane, Yoshinori http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-0778
Hida, Jin-ichi
Makutani, Yusuke
Ushijima, Hokuto
Yoshioka, Yasumasa
Iwamoto, Masayoshi
Wada, Toshiaki
Daito, Koji
Tokoro, Tadao
Ueda, Kazuki
Kawamura, Junichiro
Article History
Received: 17 September 2020
Accepted: 18 February 2021
First Online: 22 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Further, this study was approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Boards of Kindai University (approval no. 2019-031).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agree with submission to <i>BMC Surgery.</i>
: The authors have no conflicts interest to disclose.