July 18, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani
Mazor Surgical’s robot-guided system helps boost accuracy and lower radiation exposure in placing pedicle screws in adolescent scoliosis patients, researchers report.
Florida-based Mazor Robotics (NSDQ:MZOR) this week reported new study results for its Renaissance robot-assisted surgical system, touting greater than 99% accuracy in placing pedicle screws in adolescent patients with scoliosis.
Encompassing surgery in 223 patients at 5 centers, the robot placed a total of 3,270 screws to help correct idiopathic scoliosis. When accounting for screws placed by hand (either because the robot couldn’t reach, the software failed to register the vertebra or a surgeon simply decided to skip the screw) the surgical robot still executed with 92.2% accuracy.
