Miyasato, Yoshikazu
Morinaga, Jun
Inoue, Hideki
Nakayama, Yushi
Adachi, Masataka
Izumi, Yuichiro
Kakizoe, Yutaka
Mizumoto, Teruhiko
Nakagawa, Terumasa
Fujimoto, Daisuke
Ono, Makoto
Oda, Akira
Kuwabara, Takashige
Mukoyama, Masashi
Article History
Received: 4 August 2023
Accepted: 29 October 2023
First Online: 7 November 2023
Declarations
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: This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. It was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of Kumamoto University Hospital (No. 2529). Because of the anonymity of the patients studied and the nonintrusive nature of the research, the requirement for written consent was waived via the opt-out method on the hospital’s information website.
: Because of the anonymity of the patients studied and the nonintrusive nature of the research, the requirement for written consent was waived via the opt-out method on the hospital’s information website.
: The authors declare no competing interests relevant to the contents of this article.