Mishima, Saori
Kawazoe, Akihito
Nakamura, Yoshiaki
Sasaki, Akinori
Kotani, Daisuke
Kuboki, Yasutoshi
Bando, Hideaki
Kojima, Takashi
Doi, Toshihiko
Ohtsu, Atsushi
Yoshino, Takayuki
Kuwata, Takeshi
Tsuji, Akihito
Shitara, Kohei
Article History
Received: 16 October 2018
Accepted: 20 January 2019
First Online: 31 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures followed in this study were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and later versions and the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects. Informed consent for it was obtained from all patients for their being included in the study.
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