Image-guided spinal navigation: application to spinal metastases

Neurosurg Focus. 2001 Dec 15;11(6):e5. doi: 10.3171/foc.2001.11.6.6.

Abstract

Image-guided spinal navigation is an adjuvant surgical technology that has evolved over the past decade. It has been used as a replacement for conventional intraoperative imaging techniques to improve the spine surgeon's spatial orientation to nonvisualized anatomy. The author will review the principles of image-guided technology in spinal surgery and focus on its application to the management of spinal metastatic disease.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bone Screws
  • Decompression, Surgical
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Humans
  • Infrared Rays*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neuronavigation* / instrumentation
  • Neurosurgical Procedures*
  • Orthopedic Procedures*
  • Preoperative Care
  • Radiography, Interventional
  • Spinal Cord Compression / etiology
  • Spinal Cord Compression / surgery
  • Spinal Neoplasms / complications
  • Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Spinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed