Computer-Assisted Neurosurgical Navigational System for Transsphenoidal Surgery. Technical Note.

Computer-assisted navigational surgery enhances safety in dental implantology.

INTRODUCTION Dental implants are increasingly used to restore missing dentition. These titanium implants are surgically installed in the edentulous alveolar ridge and allowed to osteointegrate with the bone during the healing phase. After osseo-integration, the implant is loaded with a prosthesis to replace the missing tooth. Conventional implant treatment planning uses study models, wax-ups an...

Superior Turbinectomy: Role for a Two-surgeon Technique in Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Surgery—Technical Note

We describe a practical technique of superior turbinectomy followed by posterior ethmoidectomy as a less invasive procedure for two-surgeon technique on endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery. After identification of the superior turbinate and the sphenoid ostium, the inferior third portion of the superior turbinate was coagulated and resected. This partial superior turbinectomy procedure...

Novel closure technique for the endonasal transsphenoidal approach. Technical note.

Transsphenoidal microsurgery has been the standard approach to sellar lesions since the repopularization of the technique with modifications by Dott, Guiot, and Hardy. The endonasal transseptal transsphenoidal approach, as introduced by Hirsch, is still commonly used by pituitary surgeons to remove lesions of the sellar and parasellar region. One disadvantage of this approach is that the submuc...

Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgical Navigational Orthopedic Procedure

1. The technology must have final approval from the appropriate government regulatory bodies; 2. The scientific evidence must permit conclusions concerning the effect of the technology on health outcomes; 3. The technology must improve the net health outcome; 4. The technology must be as beneficial as any established alternatives; 5. The improvement must be attainable outside the investigationa...

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