Panteleimonitis, Sofoklis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3610-1201
Pickering, Oliver
Abbas, Hassan
Harper, Mick
Kandala, Ngianga
Figueiredo, Nuno
Qureshi, Tahseen
Parvaiz, Amjad
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Portsmouth
Article History
Accepted: 14 March 2018
First Online: 25 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Mr Sofoklis Panteleimonitis, Dr Oliver Pickering, Mr Hassan Abbas, Dr Mick Harper, Dr Ngianga Kandala, Dr Nuno Figueiredo and Prof Tahseen Qureshi have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. Prof Amjad Parvaiz is a proctor EARCS (European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery) which is funded by Intuitive Surgical.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study, formal consent is not required.Informed verbal consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.