a Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
b Department of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
c Department of Digestive Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
*Correspondence address: Norihiro Kokudo, MD, PhD, Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
E-mail: [email protected]
Received January 20, 2009; revised February 23, 2009; accepted March 3, 2009.
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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (grant no. 18790955), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (grant no. 17591377), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan (grant no. 18230201), and JSPS Fujita Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
