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Tommaso Violante1,2,3,4, Davide Ferrari1,5, Matteo Rottoli2,3,4
1Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. Southwest, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
Journal of Robotic Surgery
|February 15, 2026
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