Is computer navigation when used in the surgery of iliosacral pelvic bone tumours safer for the patient?

What is it about?

Computer navigation-assisted surgery improves patients’ safety and oncological results in patients with bone tumours in the posterior ilium with sacral invasion. The beneficial effects of navigation when applied to tumour resection of the posterior ilium and sacrum, on reducing surgical time and intraoperative blood loss, as well as the more accurate placement of osteotomies with fewer complications, is clearly an advantage. The reduction in intralesional margins even though itself is not statistically significant, has translated into improvement in systemic disease control.

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