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ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2021

The current state of navigation in robotic spine surgery.

Meng Huang, Tyler A Tetreault, Avani Vaishnav, Philip J York, Blake N Staub

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Review in Annals of translational medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Meng HuangDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Tyler A TetreaultDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Avani VaishnavDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA.
Philip J YorkDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Blake N StaubTexas Back Institute, Plano, Texas, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent and widespread adoption of pedicle screw instrumentation prompted the need for image guidance in spine surgery to improve accuracy and safety. Although the conventional method, fluoroscopy, is readily available and inexpensive, concerns regarding radiation exposure and the drive to provide better visual guidance spurred the development of computer-assisted navigation. Contemporaneously, a non-navigated robotic guidance platform was also introduced as a competing modality for pedicle screw placement. Although the robot could provide high precision trajectory guidance by restricting four of the six degrees of freedom (DOF), the lack of real-time depth control and high capital acquisition cost diminished its popularity, while computer-assisted navigation platforms became increasingly sophisticated and accepted. The recent integration of real-time 3D navigation with robotic platforms has resulted in a resurgence of interest in robotics in spine surgery with the recent introduction of numerous navigated robotic platforms. The currently available navigated robotic spine surgery platforms include the ROSA Spine Robot (Zimmer Biomet Robotics formerly Medtech SA, Montpellier, France), ExcelsiusGPS

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image guidanceNavigationroboticsspine surgery

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PMID33553379
PMCPMC7859750

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