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
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