Funding for this research was provided by:
Conmed
Article History
Received: 13 May 2020
Accepted: 29 June 2020
First Online: 6 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: James Porter: Intuitive Surgical—Speaker, Training, Ceevra—Advisory Board, Medtronic—Advisory Board, Johnson and Johnson—Consultant; Tom Feng: None; Gerald Heulitt: None; Adel Islam: None.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.