A transoral highly flexible robot: Novel Technology and Application

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1067-1071

  Rivera Serrano, Carlos M ^a   Johnson, Paul ^a   Zubiate, Brett ^b   Kuenzler, Richard ^b   Choset, Howie ^c   Zenati, Marco ^d,e   Tully, Stephen ^c   Duvvuri, Umamaheswar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Medrobotics Corporation   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

minimally invasive surgery; Transoral robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LARYNX SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; ROBOTICS; TRANSORAL HIGHLY FLEXIBLE ROBOTIC SURGERY;

ADULT; CADAVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNX; MICROSURGERY; MOUTH; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84859905726     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23237     Document Type: Article

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