Endoscopic transnasal removal of an intraconal foreign body using an image-guided surgical system

Abstract

Foreign bodies lodged in the intraconal space of the orbit pose a surgical challenge due to its deep location behind the globe. Image-guided endoscopic transnasal surgery facilitates the localization of the metallic foreign bodies and enables its safe removal with minimal surrounding tissue damage and optic nerve injury.

Keywords:

• Endonasal
• endoscopic surgery
• foreign body
• image-guided surgery
• intraconal
• orbit
• transnasal

Acknowledgements

All procedures performed in the studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.