[1
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
[2
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine and
Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
[3
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
[4
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Department of Surgery I, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
[5
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
[6
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
[7
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Kishiwada City Hospital, Kishiwada, Japan.
[8
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Kumamoto Chuo Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
[9
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Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences of Thoracic and
Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata, Japan.
[10
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Innovative Clinical Research Center, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
[11
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Department of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo,
Japan.
[12
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Respiratory Center, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
[13
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Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
[14
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Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Oosaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular
Diseases, Oosaka, Japan.
[15
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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Electronic address:
hdate@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp.