3-D system offers advantages for learning surgery

Athanasios Nikolakopoulos
VIENNA — There is no reason to be afraid of using a heads-up 3-D viewing modality to perform surgery because the advantages are immediately appreciated when surgeons try it, according to one specialist.
“The 4K Ngenuity system (Alcon) is the new era of vitrectomy surgery, but many of our colleagues are afraid of looking into a monitor and not directly on their hands. The truth is that there is no learning curve for experienced surgeons. You sit there and just do it. It comes completely natural,” Athanasios Nikolakopoulos, (Read more...)

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