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Editorial
. 2020 Aug;9(4):546-547.
doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2020.03.17.

The future of robotic liver surgery

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti  1
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Editorial

The future of robotic liver surgery

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The author has completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/hbsn.2020.03.17). I am a consultant for Medtronic (Covidien) and receive consulting fees for this work. I am a surgical proctor for Intuitive Surgical and receive proctoring fee payments for this work. I also participate in the Case Observation Program at my institution, for which our department receives payments for case observations from Intuitive Surgical. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti has a consultant agreement with Covidien Medtronic and Ethicon Endosurgery, and he also has an institutional agreement (University of Illinois at Chicago) for training with Intuitive.

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