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Ontario’s first paediatric spinal surgery using new robotic spine platform

HN Summary • Children's Hospital at LHSC performed Ontario's first paediatric scoliosis surgery using the Mazor robotic spine platform. • The technology allowed surgeons to plan the procedure in advance and place complex spinal screws more quickly and accurately.

Ontario’s first paediatric spinal surgery using new robotic spine platform

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HN Summary • Children's Hospital at LHSC performed Ontario's first paediatric scoliosis surgery using the Mazor robotic spine platform.

• The technology allowed surgeons to plan the procedure in advance and place complex spinal screws more quickly and accurately.

• Fourteen-year-old Paige Hillman achieved a near-perfect correction, returning home within days and back to school […]

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HN Summary • Children's Hospital at LHSC performed Ontario's first paediatric scoliosis surgery using the Mazor robotic spine platform. • The technology allowed surgeons to plan the procedure in advance and place complex spinal screws more quickly and accurately. • Fourteen-year-old Paige Hillman achieved a near-perfect correction, returning home within days and back to school […]

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