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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 569456, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/569456
Research Article

Effect of Residents’ Previous Laparoscopic Surgery Experience on Initial Robotic Suturing Experience

Gokhan Sami Kilic,1 Teresa M. Walsh,1 Mostafa Borahay,1 Burak Zeybek,2 Michael Wen,1 and Daniel Breitkopf3

1Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-0587, USA
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey
3Department of of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

Received 16 April 2012; Accepted 3 July 2012

Academic Editors: P. K. Mallmann, K. Yang, and L. C. Zeferino

Copyright © 2012 Gokhan Sami Kilic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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