Robotic and robot-assisted skull base neurosurgery: systematic review of current applications and future directions.

Journal: Neurosurgical focus
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The utility of robotic instrumentation is expanding in neurosurgery. Despite this, successful examples of robotic implementation for endoscopic endonasal or skull base neurosurgery remain limited. Therefore, the authors performed a systematic review of the literature to identify all articles that used robotic systems to access the sella or anterior, middle, or posterior cranial fossae.

Authors

  • Dhiraj J Pangal
    Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Electronic address: pangal@usc.edu.
  • David J Cote
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Jacob Ruzevick
    1USC Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Benjamin Yarovinsky
    1USC Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Guillaume Kugener
    Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Bozena Wrobel
    2USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Elisabeth H Ference
    2USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Mark Swanson
    2USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Andrew J Hung
    Center for Robotic Simulation & Education, Catherine & Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, University of Southern California Institute of Urology, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: Andrew.Hung@med.usc.edu.
  • Daniel A Donoho
    Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
  • Steven Giannotta
    1USC Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Gabriel Zada
    Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.