Surgical Navigation in the Anterior Skull Base Using 3-Dimensional Endoscopy and Surface Reconstruction.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Image guidance is an important adjunct for endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery. However, current systems require bulky external tracking equipment, and their use can interrupt efficient surgical workflow.

Objective

To evaluate a trackerless surgical navigation system using 3-dimensional (3D) endoscopy and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms in the anterior skull base.

Design, setting, and participants

This interventional deceased donor cohort study and retrospective clinical case study was conducted at a tertiary academic medical center with human deceased donor specimens and a patient with anterior skull base pathology.

Exposures

Participants underwent endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal dissection and surface model reconstr

SUBMITTER: Bartholomew RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature