Mazor X Stealth Aids Spinal Surgery
Toledo’s St. Vincent Medical Center has added the Mazor X Stealth™ Edition Robotic Guidance Platform as part of the Mercy Health – Neuroscience Institute. The Mazor X Stealth Platform combines preoperative planning tools and analytics with intraoperative guidance, giving Mercy Health surgeons advanced spinal surgery options. Dr. Zubair Ahammad, Mercy Health surgeon, noted “The Mazor X robot is the latest in technological advances in spine surgery, allowing us to utilize a robotic arm to place hardware for procedures fixing the spine together with screws and rods. The Mazor allows for greater precision, improved safety, less invasiveness and greater efficiency when performing these surgeries.”
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