Pre-operative planning in spine surgery is a strong tool to provide optimal surgical treatment, as a function of the patient characteristics; 3D planning may represent a significant predictive instrument to simulate the real spine structure and its instrumentation. Dr. Verstraete will illustrate how important the implementation of navigated tool could be in ageing spine/osteoporotic patients, where the combination of a cortical path can be crucial to reach the best screw bone purchase for better treatment of these degenerative pathologies.
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