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Robot-Assisted Posterior Endoscopic Cervical Decompression

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Since the advantages of less trauma, less bleeding, less postoperative pain, and faster recovery, posterior endoscopic cervical decompression (PECD) is increasingly applied in clinical. Generally, its best indications are unilateral cervical foraminal stenosis and paracentral disc herniation. PECD can also be used for effective decompression when the pathological factors that compress the spinal cord or nerves come from the dorsal side of the spinal cord, such as ossified ligamentum flavum or atlantoaxial dysplasia. Due to percutaneous cervical spine, endoscopic surgery requires high precision, the deep integration of robots and digital orthopedics will provide great assistance to doctors in diagnosis and treatment. The early applications of spinal robots focused on improving the accuracy of pedicle screw placement, pathological biopsies, vertebroplasty, and local sealing operations. However, there are still few reports on the application of orthopedic robots in endoscopic spinal surgery. This chapter mainly introduces the application and exploration of robot-assisted PECD. In general, robot-assisted PECD shows the characteristics of precise and minimally invasive.

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Abbreviations

PCF:

Posterior cervical foraminotomy

MED:

Micro-endoscope

PECD:

Posterior endoscopic cervical decompression

CT:

Computed Tomography

MRI:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine & Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

    Bo-Lai Chen & Yong-Peng Lin

  2. Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

    Yong-Peng Lin

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jin-Sung Kim

  2. Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care, New York Presbyterian OCH SPINE, New York, NY, USA

    Roger Härtl

  3. Department of Neurosurg & Rehab Medicine, University of Miami Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

    Michael Y. Wang

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

    Adrian Elmi-Terander

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Chen, BL., Lin, YP. (2022). Robot-Assisted Posterior Endoscopic Cervical Decompression. In: Kim, JS., Härtl, R., Wang, M.Y., Elmi-Terander, A. (eds) Technical Advances in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0175-1_30

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