New study tests High-Tech scans for safer spine surgery
NCT ID NCT04134975
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 17, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study looked at whether using a special 3D scan during surgery, combined with a navigation system, helps place screws more accurately in the lower back compared to the usual X-ray method. It involved 126 adults having lumbar spine surgery. The main goal was to see if the new technique improves screw placement and reduces radiation exposure for both patients and the surgical team.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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126 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2018
- Finished
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Jun 2022
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female subject over the age of 18 * Subject with lumbar degenerative pathology, requiring surgery with pedicle screw placement between L1 and S1, confirmed on MRI or preoperative scan * Well conducted medical treatment, at least 3 months, which did not allow pain sedation * Unprotected adult within the meaning of the law * Subject belonging to a health insurance scheme * Subject having signed their written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Subject who is a minor, pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding woman * Adult subject under legal protection, guardianship or deprivation of liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Subject hospitalised without consent * Medical contraindications to surgery and anaesthesia * Contraindication of a medical nature to an MRI (pace-maker) or a scan being carried out * Subject already treated by surgery for the same vertebral levels or adjacent levels * Subject with scoliosis with a Cobb angle of more than 10°.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Clairval Private Hospital
Marseille, Paca, 13009, France
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