Bone-mounted miniature robotic guidance for pedicle screw and translaminar facet screw placement: Part I - Technical development and a test case result

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 641-650

  Lieberman, Isador H ^a   Togawa, Daisuke ^a   Kayanja, Mark M ^a   Reinhardt, Mary K ^a   Friedlander, Alon ^b   Knoller, Nachshon ^b   Benzel, Edward C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Miniature robot; Minimally invasive spine surgery; Pedicle screws; Surgical assist; Translaminar facet screws

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPERATING ROOM; PATCH CLAMP; PEDICLE SCREW; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BONE SCREWS; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MINIATURIZATION; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33748579924     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000229055.00829.5B     Document Type: Article

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