Clinical Pedicle Screw Accuracy and Deviation From Planning in Robot-Guided Spine Surgery

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A retrospective chart review was performed for 112 consecutive minimally invasive spinal surgery patients who underwent pedicular screw fixation in a community hospital setting.

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Pedicle screw placement accuracy: a meta-analysis.

Victor Kosmopoulos, Constantin Schizas (2007)

A meta-analysis of the published literature was conducted specifically looking at accuracy and the postoperative methods used for the assessment of pedicle screw placement in the human spine. This study specifically aimed to identify postoperative methods used for pedicle screw placement assessment, including the most common method, and to report cumulative pedicle screw placement study statistics from synthesis of the published literature. Safety concerns have driven specific interests in the accuracy and precision of pedicle screw placement. A large variation in reported accuracy may exist partly due to the lack of a standardized evaluation method and/or the lack of consensus to what, or in which range, is pedicle screw placement accuracy considered satisfactory. A MEDLINE search was executed covering the span from 1966 until 2006, and references from identified papers were reviewed. An extensive database was constructed for synthesis of the identified studies. Subgroups and descriptive statistics were determined based on the type of population, in vivo or cadaveric, and separated based on whether the assistance of navigation was employed. In total, we report on 130 studies resulting in 37,337 total pedicle screws implanted, of which 34,107 (91.3%) were identified as accurately placed for the combined in vivo and cadaveric populations. The most common assessment method identified pedicle screw violations simply as either present or absent. Overall, the median placement accuracy for the in vivo assisted navigation subgroup (95.2%) was higher than that of the subgroup without the use of navigation (90.3%). Navigation does indeed provide a higher accuracy in the placement of pedicle screws for most of the subgroups presented. However, an exception is found at the thoracic levels for both the in vivo and cadaveric populations, where no advantage in the use of navigation was found.

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

Florian Ringel, Carsten Stüer, Andreas Reinke … (2012)

Single-center prospective randomized controlled study.

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Clinical acceptance and accuracy assessment of spinal implants guided with SpineAssist surgical robot: retrospective study.

Alexander Bruskin, Ioannis Pechlivanis, Rupert H J Dietl … (2010)

Retrospective, multicenter study of robotically-guided spinal implant insertions. Clinical acceptance of the implants was assessed by intraoperative radiograph, and when available, postoperative computed tomography (CT) scans were used to determine placement accuracy. To verify the clinical acceptance and accuracy of robotically-guided spinal implants and compare to those of unguided free-hand procedures. SpineAssist surgical robot has been used to guide implants and guide-wires to predefined locations in the spine. SpineAssist which, to the best of the authors' knowledge, is currently the sole robot providing surgical assistance in positioning tools in the spine, guided over 840 cases in 14 hospitals, between June 2005 and June 2009. Clinical acceptance of 3271 pedicle screws and guide-wires inserted in 635 reported cases was assessed by intraoperative fluoroscopy, where placement accuracy of 646 pedicle screws inserted in 139 patients was measured using postoperative CT scans. Screw placements were found to be clinically acceptable in 98% of the cases when intraoperatively assessed by fluoroscopic images. Measurements derived from postoperative CT scans demonstrated that 98.3% of the screws fell within the safe zone, where 89.3% were completely within the pedicle and 9% breached the pedicle by up to 2 mm. The remaining 1.4% of the screws breached between 2 and 4 mm, while only 2 screws (0.3%) deviated by more than 4 mm from the pedicle wall. Neurologic deficits were observed in 4 cases yet, following revisions, no permanent nerve damage was encountered, in contrast to the 0.6% to 5% of neurologic damage reported in the literature. SpineAssist offers enhanced performance in spinal surgery when compared to free-hand surgeries, by increasing placement accuracy and reducing neurologic risks. In addition, 49% of the cases reported herein used a percutaneous approach, highlighting the contribution of SpineAssist in procedures without anatomic landmarks.