AUTHOR=Pérez de la Torre Ramiro A. , Ramanathan Siddharth , Williams Ashley L. , Perez-Cruet Mick J. 

TITLE=Minimally-Invasive Assisted Robotic Spine Surgery (MARSS)

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Surgery

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/surgery/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2022.884247

DOI=10.3389/fsurg.2022.884247

ISSN=2296-875X

ABSTRACT=Minimally-invasive assisted robotic spine surgery (MARSS) has expanded the surgeons armamentarium to treat a variety of spinal disorders. In the last decade robotic develop in the spine surgical arena has improved safety, accuracy and efficacy of instrumentation placement. Additionally, robots have been applied to remove “difficult to get to” tumors while allowing minimally invasive access. Gross manual movements by the surgeon are translated into fine precision movements by the robot. This is exemplified in this chapter with the use of the da Vinci robot to remove apical thoracic tumors.  In what we have called minimal-assisted robotic spine surgery or MARSS, we will review the develop, latest technology, and case review using MARSS to treat spine pathology in a minimally invasive fashion.