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Authors
Le, Huy Duc
Ruchay, Zino
Pape, Julian
Rambow, Anna-Christina
Günther, Veronika
Conrad, Pernilla Virginia
Pochhammer, Julius
Maass, Nicolai
Alkatout, Ibrahim
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel
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Article History
Received: 12 February 2026
Accepted: 9 March 2026
First Online: 27 March 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests. Ibrahim Alkatout served as a proctor for Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
: The study was carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and its later amendments, as well as the ethical standards of the institutional and national committee on human experimentation. The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee of the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany (reference number: D 535/24).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Fig. 1B.
