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ENT Navigation Solutions
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Healthcare Professionals
Procedures and Techniques
ENT Navigation Solutions
Whether you're performing functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) or operating in the skull base, meta-analyses on commercial image-guided navigation systems, like StealthStation™ ENT system, suggest a reduction in major complications during endoscopic sinus surgery compared with non-image guided procedures.1-3
Image-guided surgery has become an industry standard for many endoscopic sinus surgeries. The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) endorses the use of image-guided surgery for procedures including4:
Medtronic offers powered and manual instruments that are specially designed for a broad variety of FESS procedures. Learn more about our additional products for FESS and their potential benefits for you and your patients.
Image-guided surgery with the StealthStation™ ENT Navigation System can be used to surgically navigate tumors and lesions affecting the anterior and lateral skull base. This is accomplished through:
Benefits of image-guided navigated surgery include improvements in visualization, enabling surgeons to work within complex sinus anatomy and optimize surgical strategies for their patients.5-9
Patient benefits include:
Masterson L, et al. Image-guided sinus surgery: practical and financial experiences from a UK centre 2001-2009. J Laryngol Otol. 2012;126(12):1224-1230.
Ahn S, et al. Better surgical outcome by image-guided navigation system in endoscopic removal of sinonasal inverted papilloma. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2018;46(6):937-941.
Galletti, et al. Endoscopic sinus surgery with and without computer assisted navigation: A retrospective study. Auris Nasus Larynx. 2019; 46(4): 520-525.
American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS). Intra-Operative Use of Computer Aided Surgery. Accessed November 17, 2009.
Mert A, et al. An advanced navigation protocol for endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery. World Neurosurg. 2014;82(6 Suppl):S95-105.
Yao WC, et al. Centrifugal frontal sinus dissection technique: addressing anterior and posterior frontoethmoidal air cells. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2015;5(8):761-763
Bernardeschi D, et al. Use of bone anchoring device in electromagnetic computer-assisted navigation in lateral skull base surgery. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 133:10, 1047-1052, 2013
Stelter K, et al, Evaluation of an image-guided navigation system in the training of functional endoscopic sinus surgeons. A prospective, randomized clinical study. Rhinology 49: 429-437, 2011
Strauss G, et al. Evaluation of a navigation system for ENT with surgical efficiency criteria. Laryngoscope. 2006 Apr;116(4):564-72.
Dalgorf M, et al. Image-guided surgery influences perioperative morbidity from endoscopic sinus surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Otolarnygology. 2013; 149(1):17-29.
Ramakrishnan VR, et al. The use of image-guided surgery in endoscopic sinus surgery: an evidence-based review with recommendations. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2013;3(3):236-241.
Vreugdenburg TD, et al. Stereotactic anatomical localization in complex sinus surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Laryngoscope. 2016;126(1):51-59.
Citardi MJ, et al. Next-Generation Surgical Navigation Systems in Sinus and Skull Base Surgery. Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2017;50(3):617-632.