scholarly journals Isthmus-guided Cortical Bone Trajectory for Pedicle Screw Insertion

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Iwatsuki ◽  
Toshiki Yoshimine ◽  
Yu-ichiro Ohnishi ◽  
Kosi Ninomiya ◽  
Toshika Ohkawa
Spine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (14) ◽  
pp. E851-E856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keitaro Matsukawa ◽  
Takashi Kato ◽  
Yoshiyuki Yato ◽  
Hiroshi Sasao ◽  
Hideaki Imabayashi ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. E248-E253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keitaro Matsukawa ◽  
Yoshiyuki Yato ◽  
Osamu Nemoto ◽  
Hideaki Imabayashi ◽  
Takashi Asazuma ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keitaro Matsukawa ◽  
Yoshiyuki Yato ◽  
Hideaki Imabayashi ◽  
Naobumi Hosogane ◽  
Takashi Asazuma ◽  
...  

JBJS Reviews ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. e13 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. David Kaye ◽  
Srinivas K. Prasad ◽  
Alex R. Vaccaro ◽  
Alan S. Hilibrand

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. E171-E171
Author(s):  
Justice O Agyei ◽  
Asham Khan ◽  
Patrick K Jowdy ◽  
Timothy E O’Connor ◽  
Joshua E Meyers ◽  
...  

Abstract Robot-assisted pedicle screw insertion has been slowly gaining popularity in the spine surgery community. In previous studies, robotics has been shown to increase accuracy and reduce complication rates compared to other navigation technologies, although those studies have been conducted using traditional trajectories for pedicle screw insertion. We present a surgical video in which a robotics system (Mazor X; Mazor Robotics Ltd, Caesarea, Israel) was used to create cortical bone trajectories for the insertion of the screws. The patient in this case is a 52-yr-old woman with severe L4-5 disc herniation requiring a transforaminal interbody fusion with the insertion of pedicle screws. The robotic system's scan-and-plan technique was utilized, in which an intraoperative computed tomography (CT) scan generates a real-time operative plan. Other techniques for inserting pedicle screws using cortical bone trajectories include CT navigation and fluoroscopic guidance. These techniques allow the surgeon to manually direct the screw under precise guidance in multiple planes, although the surgeon is still using all 6 degrees of freedom the human hand provides. With robotic guidance, a pilot hole is drilled, which eliminates 4 of 6 degrees of freedom, which can potentially reduce the risk of misplaced screws. To our knowledge, this is the first video demonstrating pedicle screw insertion through cortical bone trajectories using robotic guidance. Future studies are warranted to compare cortical bone trajectory insertion using different navigation techniques to determine the long-term efficacy of each technique. The patient gave informed consent for surgery and video recording. Institutional review board approval was deemed unnecessary.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Chang Chang ◽  
Chao-Hung Kuo ◽  
Hsuan-Kan Chang ◽  
Tsung-Hsi Tu ◽  
Li-Yu Fay ◽  
...  

Abstract Background The conventional pedicle-screw-based dynamic stabilization process involves dissection of the Wiltse plane to cannulate the pedicles, which cannot be undertaken with minimal surgical invasion. Despite some reports having demonstrated satisfactory outcomes of dynamic stabilization in the management of low-grade spondylolisthesis, the extensive soft tissue dissection involved during pedicle screw insertion substantially compromises the designed rationale of motion (muscular) preservation. The authors report on a novel method for minimally invasive insertion of dynamic screws and a mini case series. Methods The authors describe innovations for inserting dynamic screws via the cortical bone trajectory (CBT) under spinal navigation. All the detailed surgical procedures and clinical data are demonstrated. Results A total of four (2 females) patients (mean age 64.75 years) with spinal stenosis at L4–5 were included. By a combination of microscopic decompression and image-guided CBT screw insertion, laminectomy and dynamic screw stabilization were achieved via one small skin incision (less than 3 cm). These patients’ back and leg pain improved significantly after the surgery. Conclusion This innovative dynamic screw stabilization via the CBT involved no discectomy (or removal of sequestrated fragment only), no interbody fusion, and little muscle dissection (not even of the Wiltse plane). As a minimally invasive surgery, CBT appeared to be a viable alternative to the conventional pedicle-screw-based dynamic stabilization approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Tan ◽  
Stewart McLachlin ◽  
Cari Whyne ◽  
Joel Finkelstein

OBJECTIVEThe cortical bone trajectory (CBT) technique for pedicle screw placement has gained popularity among spinal surgeons. It has been shown biomechanically to provide better fixation and improved pullout strength compared to a traditional pedicle screw trajectory. The CBT technique also allows for a less invasive approach for fusion and may have lower incidence of adjacent-level disease. A limitation of the current CBT technique is a lack of readily identifiable and reproducible visual landmarks to guide freehand CBT screw placement in comparison to the well-defined identifiable landmarks for traditional pedicle screw insertion. The goal of this study was to validate a safe and intuitive freehand technique for placement of CBT screws based on optimization of virtual CBT screw placement using anatomical landmarks in the lumbar spine. The authors hypothesized that virtual identification of anatomical landmarks on 3D models of the lumbar spine generated from CT scans would translate to a safe intraoperative freehand technique.METHODSCustomized, open-source medical imaging and visualization software (3D Slicer) was used in this study to develop a workflow for virtual simulation of lumbar CBT screw insertion. First, in an ex vivo study, 20 anonymous CT image series of normal and degenerative lumbar spines and virtual screw insertion were conducted to place CBT screws bilaterally in the L1–5 vertebrae for each image volume. The optimal safe CBT trajectory was created by maximizing both the screw length and the cortical bone contact with the screw. Easily identifiable anatomical surface landmarks for the start point and trajectory that best allowed the reproducible idealized screw position were determined. An in vivo validation of the determined landmarks from the ex vivo study was then performed in 10 patients. Placement of virtual “test” cortical bone trajectory screws was simulated with the surgeon blinded to the real-time image-guided navigation, and the placement was evaluated. The surgeon then placed the definitive screw using image guidance.RESULTSFrom the ex vivo study, the optimized technique and landmarks were similar in the L1–4 vertebrae, whereas the L5 optimized technique was distinct. The in vivo validation yielded ideal, safe, and unsafe screws in 62%, 16%, and 22% of cases, respectively. A common reason for the nonidealized trajectories was the obscuration of patient anatomy secondary to severe degenerative changes.CONCLUSIONSCBT screws were placed ideally or safely 78% of the time in a virtual simulation model. A 22% rate of unsafe freehand trajectories suggests that the CBT technique requires use of image-guided navigation or x-ray guidance and that reliable freehand CBT screw insertion based on anatomical landmarks is not reliably feasible in the lumbar spine.


2020 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. e625-e632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asham Khan ◽  
Kyungduk Rho ◽  
Jennifer Z. Mao ◽  
Timothy E. O’Connor ◽  
Justice O. Agyei ◽  
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