Accuracy of image-guided pedicle screw placement using intraoperative computed tomography-based navigation with automated referencing. Part II: Thoracolumbar spine

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1307-1316

  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

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ILIAC BONE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PARESTHESIA; PEDICLE SCREW; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RELIABILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80955135100     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822ba190     Document Type: Article

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