Takahashi, Kenjiro MD*; Hisaka, Toru MD, PhD*; Horiuchi, Hiroyuki MD, PhD*; Ishikawa, Hiroto MD, PhD*; Nakayama, Masamichi MD, PhD†; Nakashima, Osamu MD, PhD†; Kawahara, Akihiko PhD‡; Kage, Masayoshi MD, PhD‡; Yano, Hirohisa MD, PhD†; Akagi, Yoshito MD, PhD*; Yonemoto, Koji PhD§; Kinoshita, Hisafumi MD, PhD*; Shirouzu, Kazuo MD, PhD*
From the Departments of *Surgery, †Pathology, ‡Diagnostic Pathology, and §Biostatistics Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.
Received for publication July 4, 2014; accepted October 30, 2014.
Reprints: Kenjiro Takahashi, MD, Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000000337
