Johnson, Craig S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8184-558X
Kassir, Andrew
Marx, Daryl S.
Soliman, Mark K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Intuitive Surgical
Article History
Received: 20 February 2018
Accepted: 16 May 2018
First Online: 30 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Johnson receives consulting and education fees from Intuitive Surgical; Dr. Marx receives fees from Intuitive for education and case observation research; and Dr. Soliman is a consultant and lecturer for Intuitive and is on the medical advisory board for C-SATS. Dr. Kassir reports no conflicts of interest or disclosures.
: All procedures, which were carried out and described in this study, were in accordance with the ethical standards of each institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Due to the retrospective nature of this study, formal consent was not required.