Acurácia da inserção dos parafusos pediculares: estudo comparativo entre fluoroscopia e navegação em coluna torácica de cadáveres

Abstract

The fixation with pedicle screw plays an important role in many spinal surgeries, providing excellent postoperative stability of the spine. It is currently the main form of instrumentation of thoracolumbar spine. The misplaced screws may cause not only a reduction in stability but, also, vascular, visceral or neurological lesions. Some methods adjuvant are used to increase the accuracy rate on the insertion of these, including intraoperative fluoroscopy and computer assisted navigation. In literature, we find studies evaluating the accuracy of these methods and comparing them, however among studies, the evaluation of the accuracy varies significantly, dificulting the interpretation and comparison.The main objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of pedicle screw insertion in the thoracic spine between the technique guided by fluoroscopy and by computer assisted navigation. In this study, 8 cadavers were used, divided into two groups: in group 1, 40 pedicle screws were inserteds with the aid of fluoroscopy, and in group 2, 40 screws with the aid of computerized navigation. There was one drilling error in each group, which resulted in an average of 2.5% of drilling error in each group. In group 1, it has been done 350 fluoroscopic images and in group 2 no image has been done. After statistical analysis, there was no statistically significant difference between the two techniques in this study, wich demonstrate the safe of the computer assisted navigation and the benefit of no exposition toradiation.