From the aDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
bDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Received August 30, 2022, and accepted for publication, after revision November 9, 2022.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: none declared. Costs related to statistical analysis and manuscript publication were funded through the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
Data for this study are available upon request.
The involvement of human participants in the study was reviewed and approved by the KPUM Institutional Review Board, and the study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of institutional and national research committees (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine IRBMED no. ERB-C-563-1). Participants provided written informed consent.
Reprints: Yoshihiro Sowa, MD, PhD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. E-mail: [email protected].
