Company clinical representative (cr) was present for a monteris ablation case.
The surgeon planned one trajectory for a fairly superficial lesion in the parietal lobe.
Fiducial registration was performed by getting an o-arm scan and merging it to the preoperative mri.
Both surgeon and cr looked at the merge and confirmed accuracy.
After placing the trajectory, the patient was detached from rosa and the mri machine was brought in to begin the ablation.
When the first intraoperative mri was taken, however, it showed that the trajectory was several millimeters inferior than the planning target point.
As a result, surgeon was not able to ablate as much as the lesion as he wanted.
Surgeon and cr again looked at the merge between the o-arm scan and the preoperative mri and did not believe that the merge could have caused the inaccuracy.
Surgeon did not notice any head shift, the trajectory did not seem to skive during drilling or bolt placement, and the fiducial registration gave a good rms value that both the cr and surgeon found acceptable.
The intraoperative mri scan showing the placement of the fiber would not merge correctly to the preoperative mri, but the cr retrieved it for the cht team to try to merge into the plan themselves.
No known impact to patient, error occurred after first incision and patient was already under anesthesia, no delay to case.
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