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Robotics in Sinus Surgery

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Robotics in surgery is a very promising field. In otorhinolaryngology, these novel techniques have predominantly been described for head and neck surgery. In skull base surgery more than in sinus surgery, the application of robots is hampered by their size and the narrow corridor available, especially through the small diameter nostrils. In endoscopic sinus surgery, most robotics developments have been in robotics arms for holding the endoscope, flexible instruments, and training simulators.

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  1. Department of General ORL, H&NS, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Alexandros Andrianakis & Peter Valentin Tomazic

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  1. Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Mohammed Maan Al-Salihi

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Ali Ayyad

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    R. Shane Tubbs

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

    Joachim Oertel

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Andrianakis, A., Tomazic, P.V. (2023). Robotics in Sinus Surgery. In: Al-Salihi, M.M., Ayyad, A., Tubbs, R.S., Oertel, J. (eds) Robotics in Skull-Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38376-2_4

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