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2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Navigation in Cervical Spine Surgery
Author : A. Weldner
Published in: Navigation and Robotics in Total Joint and Spine Surgery
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In general there is no difference in stabilization techniques of the cervical spine compared with the lumbar spine: screws are inserted into the spine and connected with rods (posterior) and a plate (anterior) to achieve primary stability. Transarticular screw fixation is introduced by Magerl for C1/C2. Judet described another fixation technique for fracture of the pars interarticularis of C2 in which a screw bridges the both fracture parts.