Koerner C, Rosen SA. How robotics is changing and will change the field of colorectal surgery. World J Gastrointest Surg 2019; 11(10): 381-387 [PMID: 31681459 DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v11.i10.381]
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Seth Alan Rosen, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Emory University, 100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States. seth.rosen@emoryhealthcare.org
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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World J Gastrointest Surg. Oct 27, 2019; 11(10): 381-387 Published online Oct 27, 2019. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v11.i10.381
How robotics is changing and will change the field of colorectal surgery
Crystal Koerner, Seth Alan Rosen
Crystal Koerner, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
Seth Alan Rosen, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
Author contributions: Rosen SA designed research; Koerner C and Rosen SA performed research; Koerner C and Rosen SA analyzed data; Koerner C and Rosen SA wrote the paper.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Rosen SA has been compensated in the past by Intuitive Surgical for giving lectures on robotic colorectal surgery.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Seth Alan Rosen, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Emory University, 100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States. seth.rosen@emoryhealthcare.org
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Received: May 2, 2019 Peer-review started: May 5, 2019 First decision: August 2, 2019 Revised: September 4, 2019 Accepted: September 22, 2019 Article in press: September 22, 2019 Published online: October 27, 2019 Processing time: 178 Days and 18.2 Hours
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