Kaoukabani, Georges http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1626-3126
Gokcal, Fahri http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-7991
Fanta, Abeselom http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0592-861X
Liu, Xi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7684-5243
Shields, Mallory http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3331-9910
Stricklin, Catherine
Friedman, Alexander
Kudsi, Omar Yusef http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6723-0909
Article History
Received: 30 May 2023
Accepted: 31 August 2023
First Online: 3 October 2023
Declarations
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: Drs. Georges Kaoukabani, Alexander Friedman, and Fahri Gokcal have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. Abeselom Fanta, Xi Liu, and Mallory Shields are employees at Intuitive Surgical and do not report any other conflict of interest of financial ties. Dr. Omar Yusef Kudsi has received a teaching course and/or consultancy fees from Intuitive Surgical, Bard-Davol, and W.L. Gore outside the submitted work.
: The database used for this study approved by the Institutional Review Board.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were under 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.