Placement of thoracolumbar pedicle screws using three-dimensional image guidance: Experience in a large patient cohort - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-39

  Nottmeier, Eric W ^a   Seemer, Will ^b   Young, Phillip M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted image guidance; Instrumentation; Navigation; Pedicle screw; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NERVE ROOT INJURY; PEDICLE SCREW; SPINE FUSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BONE SCREW; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRA;

BONE SCREWS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MEDICAL RECORDS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61549092238     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.10.SPI08383     Document Type: Article

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