Sugiyama, Ryo
Isono, Wataru
Osamu, Wada-Hiraike
Maruyama, Masanori
Article History
Received: 16 August 2017
Accepted: 27 April 2018
First Online: 25 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. The institutional ethics committee of Maruyama Memorial General Hospital approved this project. The committee’s reference number was 2017-01, and we obtained informed consent from the patient for using any pictures of operations.
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