Gefen, R.
Emile, S. H.
Horesh, N.
Garoufalia, Z.
Freund, M. R.
Wexner, S. D.
Article History
Received: 8 December 2023
Accepted: 3 April 2024
First Online: 21 May 2024
Declarations
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: None of the authors reports any relevant financial competing interests. Dr. Wexner is a consultant for Baxter, Becton, Dickinson and Co, Glaxo Smith Kline, Intuitive Surgical, Livsmed, Medtronic, Olympus, OstomyCure, Stryker, Takeda, Virtual Ports, is a member of the Data Safety Monitoring Board of JSR/WCG/ACI (chair), Polypoid (chair), and Boomerang and receives royalties from Intuitive Surgical, Karl Storz Endoscopy America Inc., Medtronic, and Unique Surgical Solutions, LLC.
: The study was a retrospective review of a public database that entails de-identified patients’ data and does not contain any studies with human participants performed by the authors, thus ethics approval were not required according to our Institutional Review Board.
: Written informed consent to for this type of study was not required.