Study to Evaluate the Safety and Clinical Outcome of Using Navigation System in Pedicle Screw Placement in Spine Surgery

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Pedicle screw insertion is performed to treat the patients with spine conditions, including degenerative, traumatogenic, and neoplastic lesions. Accurate insertion of pedicle screw is a crucial step which directly affects the surgical outcomes. In order to place the screws safely and accurately, various conventional techniques have been used, focusing on marking anatomical locations, entry points and insertion angles. Since the early 1990, the methods using computer systems that allow real-time image processing have been explored in order to improve the accuracy of pedicle screw placement. The Medtronic StealthStation® S7® System is a hardware platform that enables real-time surgical navigation using radiological patient images. The application software reformats patient-specific CT or MR images acquired before surgery, or fluoroscopic images acquired during surgery, and displays them on-screen from a variety of perspectives. The "Anatase" Spine Surgery Navigation System is indicated for precisely positioning of surgical instruments and/or implants during general spinal surgery, such as pedicle screw placement. This study will be a two-arms, single center, evaluator blind, controlled, parallel, randomised study in patients with pedicle screw placement in spine surgery. This trial will include patients need to undergo pedicle screw placement surgery with indication of spinal tumor, traumatic injury or degenerative spine disease (Pedicle screws placed from 10th thoracic vertebra to first sacrum), who are ≥20 years and ≤80 years of age with Body Mass Index (BMI) \< 40 kg/m2 and Spine T-Score ≥ -2.5.