Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Takafumi Yayama, MD, DMSc, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga 520-2192, Japan; E-mail: [email protected]

Received 7 August, 2021

Revised 17 November, 2021

Accepted 18 November, 2021

The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).

Grant-in-Aid [C18K09027, C15K10403] for General Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture funds were received in support of this work.

No relevant financial activities outside the submitted work.

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