Clinical Evidence

Multiple centers have used and evaluated the Flex® Robotic System in pre-clinical and clinical settings and published their findings in peer reviewed journals.

Publications

Robot-assisted endoscopic submucosal dissection versus conventional ESD for colorectal lesions: outcomes of a randomized pilot study in endoscopists without prior ESD experience (with video) Diogo Turiani Hourneax de Moura, MD, MSc, PhD, Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD. MPH, Galileu Farias, MD, Kelly E. Hathorn, MD, Ahmed Bazarbashi, MD, Amit Sachved, MD, Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, FASGE, FACG, AGAF Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2019.03.016, 2019

Transoral robotic surgery using the Medrobotic Flex® System: the Adelaide experience Neeraj Sethi, Michael Gouzos, Vikram Padhye, E. H. Ooi, Andrew Foreman, Suren Krishnan, J. C. Hodge Journal of Robotic Surgery, doi.org/10.1007/s11701-019-00941-2, 2019

Transoral Surgery Using the Flex Robotic System: Initial Experience in the United States M.J. Persky, M. Issa, J.R. Bonfili, D. Goldenberg, U. Duvvuri Head Neck, DOI 10.1002/hed.25375, 2018

A European Multicenter Study Evaluating the Flex Robotic System in Transoral Robotic Surgery S. Lang, S. Mattheis, P. Hasskamp, G. Lawson, C. G€uldner, M. Mandapathil, P. Schuler, T. Hoffmann, M. Scheithauer, M. Remacle The Laryngoscope, 00:000–000, 2016

Flex Robotic System in transoral robotic surgery: The first 40 patients
S. Mattheis, P. Hasskamp, L. Holtmann, C. Sch€afer, U. Geisthoff, N. Dominas, S. Lang, MD  Head & Neck, DOI 10.1002/HED, 2016

Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) with the Medrobotics Flex® System: first surgical application on humans M. Remacle, V. M. N. Prasad, G. Lawson, L. Plisson, V. Bachy & S. Van der Vorst European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck, ISSN 0937-4477, 2015

A New Flexible Endoscopy System for the Transoral Resection of Head and Neck Tumors (German) S. Mattheis, S. Lang, Essen, Germany Laryngo-Rhino-Otol 94: 25-28, 2015

First use of a computer-assisted operator-controlled flexible endoscope for transoral surgery P. J. Schuler, U. Duvvuri, D. T. Friedrich, N. Rotter, M. O. Scheithauer, T. K. Hoffmann The Laryngoscope, 125:3 (645-648), 2014

Demonstration of Transoral Surgery in Cadaveric Specimens with the Medrobotics Flex System Paul Johnson, BS, MS; Carlos M. Rivera Serrano, MD; Michael Castro, MS; Richard Kuenzler, MS; Howie Choset, PhD; Stephen Tully, MS; Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD The Laryngoscope, 123:1168-1172, 2013

A Transoral Highly Flexible Robot: Novel Technology and Application Carlos M. Rivera Serrano, MD; Paul Johnson, MS; Brett Zubiate, MS; Richard Kuenzler, MS; Howie Choset, PhD; Marco Zenati, MS, FETCS; Stephen Tully, MS; Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD The Laryngoscope, 122:1067-1071, 2012