Kobayashi, Toshinori http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8042-5073
Miki, Hisanori
Yamamoto, Nobuyuki
Hori, Soushi
Hatta, Masahiko
Hashimoto, Yuki
Mukaide, Hiromi
Yamasaki, Makoto
Inoue, Kentaro
Sekimoto, Mitsugu
Article History
Received: 3 April 2023
Accepted: 11 October 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures were completed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Institutional Review Board of Kansai Medical University Hospital approved the study (approval no. #2019210). Informed consent was obtained from patients via the opt-out method owing to the study’s retrospective design, with no risk to the participants.
: Not applicable.
: Toshinori Kobayashi, Hisanori Miki, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Soushi Hori, Masahiko Hatta, Yuki Hashimoto, Hiromi Mukaide, Makoto Yamasaki, Kentaro Inoue, and Mitsugu Sekimoto declare that they have no conflict of interest.