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. 2019 May 3;21(5):e11925. doi: 10.2196/11925

Table 4.

Clinical areas and types of surgical intervention in which gesture-based commercial off-the-shelf devices were used.

Clinical areas Types of surgical intervention Studies
General surgery (N=7) Intraoperative image control, image-guided minimally invasive surgery (adrenalectomy, pancreatectomy, liver resection, a Whipple procedure, as well as liver and pancreatic cancer and renal carcinoma resection), open and laparoscopic bile duct surgery, cholecystectomy, and hepatectomy and nephrectomy in an animal model. [13,52-57]
Interventional radiology and angiography (N=7) Arterial dilatation with balloon and umbrella devices, hepatic arterial chemoembolization and selective internal radiation therapy, abdominal computed tomography, and interventional neuroradiology. [58-64]
Neurosurgery (N=7) Biopsies, resection of brain gliomas, resection of a meningioma, ventriculostomy, and intraoperative image control. [26,65-70]
Plastic surgery (N=3) Measurement of breast implant volumes and measurement of distances on the breast surface. [71-73]
Orthopedics (N=3) Intraoperative image control. [55,74,75]
Ear, nose, and throat (N=1) Laryngoplasty. [76]
Urology (N=2) Enucleation of renal tumors and intraoperative image control. [30,54]