Kudsi, Omar Yusef http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6723-0909
Kaoukabani, Georges http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1626-3126
Bou-Ayash, Naseem http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-9170
Gokcal, Fahri http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-7991
Article History
Received: 20 March 2023
Accepted: 4 March 2024
First Online: 3 April 2024
Declarations
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: Dr. Omar Yusef Kudsi has received teaching course, grant funding, and/or consultancy fees from Intuitive Surgical, Bard, and W.L. Gore outside the submitted work. Drs. Georges Kaoukabani, Naseem Bou-Ayash, and Fahri Gokcal have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: The database used for this study was approved by the Institutional Review Board.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.