Does the pre-conversion platform matter? A comparison of laparoscopic and robotic converted to open colectomies

Affiliations

• ¹ Surgery Group Los Angeles, 8635 W 3rd St Suite 880, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA.
• ² Surgery Department, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
• ³ Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁴ CaTaLiNA-Cancer de Tiroides en Latino America, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, LifeBridge Health, Westminster, MD, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁸ Surgery Group Los Angeles, 8635 W 3rd St Suite 880, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA. yosefnasseri@gmail.com.