Krebs, Thomas F.
Egberts, Jan-Hendrik
Lorenzen, Ulf
Krause, Martin F.
Reischig, Katja
Meiksans, Roberts
Baastrup, Jonas
Meinzer, Andreas
Alkatout, Ibrahim
Cohrs, Gesa
Wieker, Henning
Lüthje, Annette
Vieten, Sarah
Schultheiss, Gerhard
Bergholz, Robert http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6924-8440
Funding for this research was provided by:
Transenterix (-)
Karl Storz Endoskope (-)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Article History
Received: 22 January 2021
Accepted: 16 March 2021
First Online: 26 March 2021
Declarations
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: All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.
: Author Robert Bergholz was funded by Transenterix (Milano, Italy) with supply of the Senhance Robotic System, the 3 mm, 5 mm and advanced energy instruments. He was also funded by Karl Storz (Tuttlingen, Germany) with supply of the Endoflator and Unimat device. Furthermore, he is a stockholder of Transenterix (TRXC) and Titan Medical (TMDI), a competing robotic surgery company. Author Jan-Hendrik Egberts serves as a proctor for Intuitive surgical. The authors, Thomas Krebs, Ulf Lorenzen, Martin F. Krause, Katja Reischig, Roberts Meiksans, Jonas Baastrup, Andreas Meinzer, Ibrahim Alkatout, Gesa Cohrs, Henning Wieker, Annette Luethje, Sarah Vieten, and Gerhard Schultheiss, declare that they have no conflict of interest.