Marks, J. H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-0603
Salem, J. F.
Anderson, B. K.
Josse, J. M.
Schoonyoung, H. P.
Article History
Received: 24 October 2019
Accepted: 22 November 2019
First Online: 12 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. John Marks has been engaged with Intuitive Surgical in a consultative fashion to help develop the safe application of the SP robot. This has entailed detailed conversation as well as cadaver work utilizing a protocol robot. Over this period, he has been compensated $5000.00. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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.