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Acknowledgements
The authors thank all of the staff and the study participants at Itami Kousei Neurosurgical Hospital.
Author contributions
M.K. designed the project, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. K.P.I. designed the project and helped
with writing-review and editing. H.K. conducted data curation and analyzed the data. M.N. provided the
resources and analyzed the data. S.S. was responsible for supervision and project administration. All authors
read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20K23276. The funder had no role in this study.
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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