Sivaperuman Kalairaj, Manivannan
Yeow, Bok Seng
Lim, Chwee Ming
Ren, Hongliang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6488-1551
Funding for this research was provided by:
NMRC Bedside & Bench (R-397-000-245-511)
NUSRI China Jiangsu Provincial Grant (BK20150386, BE2016077)
Article History
Received: 25 June 2019
Accepted: 16 December 2019
First Online: 11 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study is funded as declared in the acknowledgments. Authors (Mr. Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj, Mr. Bok Seng Yeow, Drs. Chwee Ming Lim, and Hongliang Ren) declare that they have no further conflict of interest as declared in the Conflict of Interest (ICMJE) document.
: 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 type of retrospective study, formal consent is not required. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Any participation in the study is voluntary, and identities of participants are kept anonymous.The cadaver used in this study is purchased from MedCure under the study Adaptive and Compliant Transoral Robotic Surgery (ACTORS) with Flexible Manipulators and Intelligent Guidance & NHG DSRB Ref: 2017/00008.