Computer-assisted pedicle screw placement for thoracolumbar spine fracture with separate spinal reference clamp placement and registration

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 597-601

  Wang, Hung Chen ^a   Yang, Yu Lin ^b   Lin, Wei Che ^a   Chen, Wu Fu ^a   Yang, Tzu Ming ^a   Lin, Yu Jun ^a   Rau, Cheng Shyuan ^a   Lee, Tao Chen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted; Pedicle screw; Thoracolumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; SPINE FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43649089187     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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