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Evolution of robot-assisted general surgery in Greece and Cyprus

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Robot-assisted general surgery in Greece and Cyprus coincided with a devastating financial crisis. We hereby present the evolution of the technology in this unwelcoming environment, using data provided to us by the official distributor of the Da Vinci platform in these countries.

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We would like to thank Sofmedica Hellas for providing the data used in this article.

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  1. Department of General, Bariatric, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Distomou Str. 5-7, 15126, Athens, Greece

    Argyrios Ioannidis, Christos Koutserimpas, Michael Konstantinidis & Konstantinos Konstantinidis

  2. 3rd Department of Surgery, Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos Machairas

  3. Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Eleftherios Spartalis

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Konstantinos Konstantinidis is a teaching proctor for Intuitive Surgical. Argyrios Ioannidis, Nikolaos Machairas, Christos Koutserimpas, Eleftherios Spartalis, and Michael Konstantinidis declare no conflict of interest.

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Ioannidis, A., Machairas, N., Koutserimpas, C. et al. Evolution of robot-assisted general surgery in Greece and Cyprus. J Robotic Surg 13, 315–317 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11701-018-00901-2

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