ARS Position Statement: Criteria for Image-Guided Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

January 28, 2023

The American Rhinologic Society endorses the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery position statement on Intra-Operative Use of Computer Aided Surgery as visible below and available at: https://www.entnet.org/content/intra-operative-use-computer-aided-surgery

The American Academy of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery endorses the intraoperative use of computer-aided surgery in appropriately select cases to assist the surgeon in clarifying complex anatomy during sinus and skull base surgery. There is sufficient expert consensus opinion and literature evidence base to support this position. This technology is used at the discretion of the operating surgeon and is not experimental or investigational. Furthermore, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is of the opinion that it is impossible to corroborate this with Level 1 evidence. These appropriate, specialty specific, and surgically indicated procedural services should be reimbursed when used by qualified physicians regardless of the specialty.

Examples of indications in which use of computer-aided surgery may be deemed appropriate include:

  1. Revision sinus surgery.
  2. Distorted sinus anatomy of development, postoperative, or traumatic origin.
  3. Extensive sinonasal polyposis.
  4. Pathology involving the frontal, posterior ethmoid or sphenoid sinuses.
  5. Disease abutting the skull base, orbit, optic nerve or carotid artery.
  6. CSF rhinorrhea or conditions where there is a skull base defect.
  7. Benign and malignant sinonasal neoplasms.

Related/analogous terminology: image-guided sinus surgery, computer-assisted sinus surgery, surgical navigation systems, stereotactic-guided surgery, computer-guided surgery systems.

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