Nishibeppu, Keiji
Komatsu, Shuhei
Ichikawa, Daisuke
Imamura, Taisuke
Kosuga, Toshiyuki
Okamoto, Kazuma
Konishi, Hirotaka
Shiozaki, Atsushi
Fujiwara, Hitoshi
Otsuji, Eigo
Article History
Received: 25 May 2017
Accepted: 25 January 2018
First Online: 30 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was designed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. All patients received sufficient explanation of the study, and written informed consent was obtained.
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