Accuracy of robot-assisted placement of lumbar and sacral pedicle screws: A prospective randomized comparison to conventional freehand screw implantation

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ringel, Florian ^a   Stüer, Carsten ^a   Reinke, Andreas ^a   Preuss, Alexander ^a   Behr, Michael ^a   Auer, Florian ^a   Stoffel, Michael ^a   Meyer, Bernhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

computer assisted surgery; image guidance; lumbar lumbosacral spinal instrumentation; pedicle screws; robotics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDICLE SCREW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS;

AGED; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS; SACRUM; SPINAL FUSION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859955993     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31824b7767     Document Type: Article

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