Eye Explorer: A robotic endoscope holder for eye surgery

Foot-controlled robotic-enabled endoscope holder for endoscopic sinus surgery: A cadaveric feasibility study.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the feasibility of a unique prototype foot-controlled robotic-enabled endoscope holder (FREE) in functional endoscopic sinus surgery. STUDY DESIGN Cadaveric study. METHODS Using human cadavers, we investigated the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of the robotic endoscope holder in performing endoscopic sinus surgery with two hands in five cadaver ...

Development of miniaturized light endoscope-holder robot for laparoscopic surgery

PURPOSE We have conducted experiments with an innovatively designed robot endoscope holder for laparoscopic surgery that is small and low cost. MATERIALS AND METHODS A compact light endoscope robot (LER) that is placed on the patient's skin and can be used with the patient in the lateral or dorsal supine position was tested on cadavers and laboratory pigs in order to allow successive modifica...

A new type of eye endoscope.

OuR knowledge of the interior of the eye has been greatly advanced by the use of the ophthalmoscope, slit lamp, and gonioscope, but the region about and forward from the ora serrata remains invisible. Therefore the nature of any pathological process must be deduced indirectly from its effect on the lens, vitreous, and retina, or by transillumination. A new endoscope has therefore been devised w...

Eye Surgery

Causes and Results of Eye Removal Surgery in Yazd, Iran

Introduction: Removing eyes has different indications. We surveyed the causes and results of eye removal surgery in Yazd, Iran. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the profile of 102 patients who had underwent eye removal surgery for any reason in the Shahid Sadoughi hospital during the last 10 years. The demographic characteristics, causes of enucleatio...