Salonika

Louise Page plays "sleight-of-mind" tricks with age and time and in doing so brings us frighteningly close to the fears and uncertainties of the human condition that is shared by both young and old. Themes of sex, love and death are drawn out like the threads spun, measured, and cut by Fates from Greek and Roman mythology--these may be seen, if one looks closely, in the lengths of string strung between earth and sky of the stage

Robotics in endoscopic transnasal skull base surgery: Literature review and personal experience

Robotics has already been applied to several surgical fields, but only transoral robotic surgery has a recognized role in skull base surgery. Different preclinical prototypes have been described for endoscopic transnasal skull base surgery (ESBS), but only recently a dedicated, hybrid robotic system has become available for clinical practice.This chapter reviews the use of holders in neurosurgery and skull base surgery, provides an overview of limitations of previous robotic systems that were designed for other surgical applications, describes the different preclinical robotic prototypes that have been developed for ESBS, and reports the initial preclinical and clinical experience with a novel, dedicated, hybrid robotic solution for endoscopic skull base surgery (EndoscopeRobot®, Medineering, Munich, Germany).The era of robotics in skull base surgery is at its dawn, but advantages of the hybrid solution are already evident, though further studies are needed to gain additional data