Masuda, Takashi
Endo, Yuichi
Amano, Shota
Kawamura, Masahiro
Fujinaga, Atsuro
Kawasaki, Takahide
Kawano, Yoko
Hirashita, Teijiro
Ohta, Masayuki
Inomata, Masafumi
Article History
Received: 23 June 2023
Accepted: 28 September 2023
First Online: 24 October 2023
Declarations
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: 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. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Oita University Faculty of Medicine (No. 1601). The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee/Institutional Review Board of Oita University Faculty of Medicine, because of the retrospective nature of the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.