**Author details**

Hideyuki Kobayashi\* , Toshihiro Tai, Koichi Nagao and Koichi Nakajima

\*Address all correspondence to: hideyukk@med.toho-u.ac.jp

Department of Urology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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**Section 5**

**Ethics**

**Section 5**
