Kudsi, Omar Yusef http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6723-0909
Chang, Karen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-2911
Bou-Ayash, Naseem http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-9170
Gokcal, Fahri http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-7991
Article History
Received: 2 January 2020
Accepted: 15 April 2020
First Online: 4 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Kudsi has received a teaching course and/or consultancy fees from Intuitive Surgical, Bard-Davol and W.L. Gore outside the submitted work. Drs. Chang, Bou-Ayash, andĀ Gokcal have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: The database used for this study approved by the Institutional Review Board.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.