Furugori, Shintaro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2414-0089
Kato, Makoto
Abe, Takeru
Iwashita, Masayuki
Morimura, Naoto
Article History
Received: 1 February 2018
Accepted: 12 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of YCUMC. The ethics committee at our institution does not require informed consent for observational studies using anonymous data previously collected for routine operations. The reference number is B170400019.
: This study was an observational study. Thus, obtaining a consent from a patient was waved by the institutional review board.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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