Healthcare Professionals
Fusion ENT Navigation System
For Image-Guided Surgery
Procedures and Techniques
Whether you're performing FESS or operating in the skull base, image-guided surgery with the Fusion System can enable safer, more thorough procedures.
Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS)
Image-Guided Surgery and FESS
Using the Fusion™ System or StealthStation® System, image-guided surgery can enable more precise and less invasive FESS (functional endoscopic sinus surgery) procedures. 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 including:1
- Revision sinus surgery
- Distorted sinus anatomy of development, postoperative, or traumatic origin
- Extensive sino-nasal polyposis
- Pathology involving the frontal, posterior ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses
- Disease abutting the skull base, orbit, optic nerve, or carotid artery
- CSF rhinorrhea or conditions where there is a skull base defect
- Benign and malignant sino-nasal neoplasms
Advantages of Image-Guided Surgery
- Procedures are less invasive than the open surgical approaches that were once standard
- Precision is greater, resulting in lower risk to the patient
- Allows for more complete surgical dissections
- Patient discomfort is minimal with potential for reduced recovery time
Additional Products for FESS
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.
References
1
American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS). Intra-Operative Use of Computer Aided Surgery. Accessed November 17, 2009.
