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Monteris Medical: Robot-assisted brain surgery with MRI

This illustration shows the laser probe in Monteris Medical’s NeuroBlate robot-assisted brain surgery system. [Image courtesy of Monteris Medical]

Monteris Medical (Plymouth, Minn.) recently announced in September 2020 that it had raised another $9 million, about four months after it crossed the 3,000 mark of people treated with its NeuroBlate robot-assisted brain surgery device.

Nearly all of the people treated so far with NeuroBlate had epilepsy, gliomas, brain metastases and radiation necrosis.

The company also received Health Canada approval for its NeuroBlate Fusion-S software in November 2020.

“Patients appreciate the minimally-invasive nature of NeuroBlate,” Dr. Stephan Schuele, chief of epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said in a May 2020 news release from Monteris announcing the 3,000th patient.

“They usually return home with a minimal hospital stay. It’s become an important tool in our kit for helping people with epilepsy and can make a real difference in people’s lives,” Schuele added.