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Introduction to Surgical Navigation

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Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery

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Surgical navigation was first adopted by neurosurgeons to increase surgical accuracy in neurosurgical procedures, ranging from biopsies to intracranial tumor resections. As bony anatomies remain unchanged between the time of image acquisition and surgical procedures, computer navigation is ideal for assisting orthopaedic interventions. Studies have demonstrated that computer navigation technology can improve the accuracy of various orthopedic surgical procedures, such as spinal pedicle screw insertion, joint arthroplasty, trauma surgery, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and recently bone tumor surgery. However, the evidence of improving long-term clinical outcome as a result of improved surgical accuracy with the computer technology is still lacking. Knowledge of computer navigation and its potential advantages and limitations in various orthopaedic procedures are essential to the successful applications of the computer technology to orthopaedic care. This chapter is to introduce the basic principles of surgical navigation and give an overview on the evidence of its use in orthopaedic applications.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

    Kwok-Chuen Wong FRCSEd (Ortho)

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  1. Computer-Assisted Surgery Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Lucas E. Ritacco

  2. Bioengineering, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Federico E. Milano

  3. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Edmund Chao

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Wong, KC. (2016). Introduction to Surgical Navigation. In: Ritacco, L., Milano, F., Chao, E. (eds) Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12943-3_6

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