Raskin, Elizabeth R.
Gorrepati, Madhu L.
Mehendale, Shilpa
Gaertner, Wolfgang B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Intuitive Surgical
Article History
Received: 20 July 2018
Accepted: 26 October 2018
First Online: 13 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: 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.
: For this retrospective, national database study, formal consent is not required.
: Elizabeth R. Raskin has received speaker honoraria from Intuitive Surgical. Madhu L. Gorrepati and Shilpa Mehendale are employees of Intuitive Surgical. Wolfgang B. Gaertner declares that he has no conflict of interest.