Mishima, Takehiro MD, PhD*; Kuroki, Tamotsu MD, PhD*; Tajima, Yoshitsugu MD, PhD†; Adachi, Tomohiko MD, PhD*; Hirabaru, Masataka MD*; Tanaka, Takayuki MD*; Kitasato, Amane MD, PhD*; Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa MD, PhD*; Eguchi, Susumu MD, PhD*
From the *Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki; and †Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan.
Received for publication February 16, 2013; accepted August 5, 2013.
Reprints: Takehiro Mishima, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
All the authors have not received any funding for this work from any organizations.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000000093
