Ryan A Bartholomew, Haoyin Zhou, Maud Boreel, Krish Suresh, Saksham Gupta, Margaret B Mitchell, Christopher Hong, Stella E Lee, Timothy R Smith, Jeffrey P Guenette, C Eduardo Corrales, Jayender Jagadeesan
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...
March 7, 2024: JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery