Huntsman, Kade T.
Ahrendtsen, Leigh A.
Riggleman, Jessica R.
Ledonio, Charles G.
Article History
Received: 28 February 2019
Accepted: 9 April 2019
First Online: 23 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Author KTH receives royalties from and is a consultant for NuVasive, and receives royalties from Titan Spine and ODC. Authors LAA, JRR, and CGL are salaried employees (with stock options) of Globus Medical, Inc. The Excelsius GPS™ robot described in this manuscript is manufactured by Globus Medical, Inc., (GMI) where authors LAA, JRR, and CGL are employees. KTH was a paid consultant to GMI at the time of writing, is a consultant with royalties to NuVasive, and receives royalties from Titan Spine and ODC.
: As the research conducted for this manuscript was a retrospective study on patient data, compliance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 were not required.