Shin, Yuki
Yamamoto, Manabu
Ota, Mitsuhiko
Kawazoe, Tetsuro
Zaitsu, Yoko
Kudo, Kensuke
Nakanishi, Ryota
Nakanoko, Tomonori
Ando, Koji
Nakashima, Yuichiro
Oki, Eiji
Kimura, Yasue
Taguchi, Kenichi
Morita, Masaru
Yoshizumi, Tomoharu
Article History
Received: 25 April 2025
Accepted: 18 December 2025
First Online: 15 January 2026
Disclosure
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University (approval no.: 23329 and 24156) and the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center (approval no.: 2013-102). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study.