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Design and Implementation of a Bespoke Robotic Manipulator for Extra-corporeal Ultrasound

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A modified cup-type uterine manipulator

Ling Han¹, Gang Shi¹, Jiaying Ruan¹

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, China; Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of Education, China.

Asian Journal of Surgery

|April 20, 2022

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Cup-type uterine manipulator Laparoscopic hysterectomy Modified

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