Accuracy of Chest Wall Tumor Resection Guided by Navigation: Experimental Model.
Difficulty in identification wall chest tumors lead to unnecessary wide resections. Optical navigation and preoperative virtual planning are assets for surgeries that require exactness and accuracy. These tools enable physicians to study real anatomy before surgery and to follow an established pathway during procedure ensuring effectiveness. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that Preoperative Virtual Planning is a useful tool in chest tumor interventions to define oncological margins successfully. Moreover, it is possible to use a virtual specimen in order to quantify accuracy. Optical navigation has been used in surgical procedures such as neurosurgery, orthopaedics and ENT over the last ten years. This principle is used in order to orientate the surgeon in three dimensional spaces during the surgery. Surgeons are guided intraoperatively with navigation and are able to obtain a correspondence between images acquired and processed before the surgery and the real anatomy.
Virtual Planning and Navigation Unit, Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lucas E
LE
Ritacco
Department of General Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
David E
DE
Smith
Virtual Planning and Navigation Unit, Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Axel V
AV
Mancino
Department of Orthopedic Surgery - Orthopedic Oncology, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
German L
GL
Farfalli
Department of Orthopedic Surgery - Orthopedic Oncology, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Luis Alberto
LA
Aponte-Tinao
Virtual Planning and Navigation Unit, Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Federico E
FE
Milano
D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D014584:User-Computer Interface