Open AccessNew ‘ZISIS’ (Zigzag Incision–Suction–Irrigation System) Technique for Endoscopic-Assisted Forehead Tumour Excision
Author(s) -
Sunil Choudhary,
Soumya Khanna,
Raghav Mantri,
Prateek Arora,
Rohit Jain
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery/journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.293
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0974-942X
pISSN - 0972-8279
DOI - 10.1007/s12663-019-01282-1
Subject(s) - medicine , forehead , surgery , endoscope , scars , suction , mechanical engineering , engineering
Endoscopic-assisted excision of forehead tumours like osteomas and lipomas is well established, but the conventional techniques suffer from many limitations like inadequate access, fogging of the endoscope and unclear vision due to collection of blood and debris.