Suzuki, Kohjin
Yoshida, Kohsuke
Ueha, Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Kenta
Nakai, Ayako
Hashimoto, Naonori
Uchida, Koto
Hashimoto, Teppei
Kawasaki, Yoshiko
Shibanuma, Nao
Nakagawa, Natsuko
Sakai, Yoshitada
Hashiramoto, Akira
Article History
Received: 25 September 2017
Accepted: 25 February 2018
First Online: 22 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study has been approved by the ethics committee of Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences (#579–1) and Kobe Kaisei Hospital (#0072), in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from each patient before study enrolment.
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