Al-Mansour, M. R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-2263
Wu, J.
Gagnon, G.
Knee, A.
Romanelli, J. R.
Seymour, N. E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (UL1 TR001064)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2020
Accepted: 16 November 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: In the 36 months preceding submission Mazen R. Al-Mansour and Jacqueline Wu have received education payments from Intuitive Surgical, Inc. and general payments from Intuitive Surgical, Inc. and CONMED Corporation. John Romanelli has received consultation fee from Covidien LP, education payments from Intuitive Surgical, Inc. and general payments from Boston Scientific Corporation, Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Covidien LP, Ethicon US, LLC and Olympus America Inc. Neal E. Seymour has received general payments from Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Greg Gagnon and Alexander Knee do not have conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human subjects were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board (IRB) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: There was no animals involved in this study.
: No informed consent was required.