Does intraoperative navigation assistance improve bone tumor resection and allograft reconstruction results?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bone tumor resections for limb salvage have become standard treatment. Recently, computer-assisted navigation has been introduced to improve the accuracy of joint arthroplasty and possible tumor resection surgery; however, like with any new technology, its benefits and limitations need to be characterized for surgeons to make informed decisions about whether to use it.

Questions/purposes

We wanted to (1) assess the technical problems associated with computer-assisted navigation; (2) assess the accuracy of the registration technique; (3) define the time required to perform a navigated resection in orthopedic oncology; and (4) the frequency of complications such as local recurrence, infection, nonunion, fracture, and articular collapse after tumor resection and bone

SUBMITTER: Aponte-Tinao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317410 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature