Accuracy of image-guided pedicle screw placement using intraoperative computed tomography-based navigation with automated referencing, part I: Cervicothoracic spine

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 782-795

  Scheufler, Kai Michael ^a   Franke, Joerg ^b   Eckardt, Anke ^c   Dohmen, Hildegard ^d  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^c Department of Orthopedic Surgery   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image guidance; Intraoperative computed tomography; Pedicle screw; Radiation exposure; Spinal instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY BASED NEURONAVIGATION; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDICLE SCREW; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; THORACIC SPINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053652621     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318222ae16     Document Type: Article

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