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  1. Department of Surgery, Japan Baptist Hospital, 47 Yamanomoto-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8273, Japan

    Kae Okoshi & Koichi Kinoshita

  2. Research Center for Science, Technology and Social Communication in Next Generation, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

    Kae Okoshi

  3. Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kae Okoshi & Koya Hida

  4. Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

    Toshitaka Morishima

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, Kawasaki Municipal Ida Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

    Yoshie Nagai

  6. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuko Tomizawa

  7. Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

    Kyoko Yorozuya

  8. Department of Anesthesiology, Masuda Red Cross Hospital, Masuda, Japan

    Takehiro Nishida

  9. Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Kindai University Hospital, Osakasayama, Japan

    Hisako Matsumoto

  10. Department of Health Development, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan

    Hiroshi Yamato

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K.O. received lecture fees from Stryker Japan K.K., CONMED Japan K.K., Johnson & Johnson K.K., Meilleur Co., Ltd, and AMCO Inc. T.N. received lecture and manuscript fees from Japan Medicalnext Co., Ltd. and Stryker Japan K.K.

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Okoshi, K., Hida, K., Kinoshita, K. et al. Response to the letter. Surg Today 52, 1393–1394 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-022-02551-2

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