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Are you a spine surgery candidate?



Are you considering one of the following spine procedures?

  • Spinal fusion surgery
  • Kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for a spine fracture
  • Scoliosis correction
  • Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) on your spine
  • Complex cervical spine surgery
  • Revision surgery to correct a condition caused by a prior spine procedure -- for example, misplaced screws occur in approximately 10%* of conventional surgeries
  • Biopsy for a spinal infection or suspected tumor

*Kosmopoulos V, Schizas C. Pedicle screw placement accuracy: a meta-analysis. Spine. 2007;32(3):E111-20.

If so, you should know about an option that spine surgeons have for improving the accuracy and safety of these procedures: spine surgery with the Mazor Robotics' Renaissance™ Surgical Guidance System.

What are the Advantages of Mazor Robotics Spine Surgery?


Independent clinical research has shown that minimally invasive surgery with Mazor Robotics technology:1,2,3
  • Increases surgical accuracy
  • Decreases intraoperative use of X-ray radiation
  • Lowers complication rates
  • Reduces reoperation rates
  • Enables faster recovery and return to daily activities

Picture this: Robots playing basketball. No drama, no suspense, no uncertainty – just consistent, precise, reproducible results.

May not make for a thrilling game, but it's the ideal setting for your spine surgery.

The same preplanned exactness that makes robo–basketball so boring, allows surgeons using Mazor Robotics' technology to consistently achieve accurate results with optimal patient outcomes.



What is Mazor Robotics' Renaissance™?

Mazor Robotics' Renaissance™ is a specially-designed surgical guidance system which allows surgeons to perform safer and more accurate spine surgeries. For patients, this means better clinical outcomes with less pain, fewer complications, and shorter recovery time. Renaissance is in daily use in leading hospitals with thousands of successful cases worldwide.

Surgical treatment of the spine requires planning and precision; and each patient's anatomy has unique challenges. Surgeons use Renaissance's advanced 3D planning software before entering the operating room to create a unique surgical blueprint, which is the ideal procedure for each patient's condition. In the operating room, the surgeon does the actual work; The Renaissance Guidance Unit guides the surgeon's tools according to the surgical blueprint to place the implants safely, and with the highest level of accuracy in the exact preplanned locations. And since there is no need for additional X-rays during surgery, there is usually less intraoperative exposure to radiation than with other surgical treatments.

Benefits of Spine Surgery with Renaissance™

Renaissance™, Mazor Robotics' surgical guidance system is an FDA cleared and CE marked system that offers compelling benefits to patients, surgeons, and hospitals. It is powered by clinically proven Mazor Robotics technology:

  • Highly accurate and safe
    • Over 15,000 spine implants
    • Thousands of spine procedures
    • No cases of permanent nerve damage
  • Proven clinical results 1,2,3
    • Patient safety
    • Facilitates minimally invasive procedures
    • Less radiation
    • Fewer complications
    • Fewer revisions

Renaissance™ is transforming back surgery by advancing surgical techniques from freehand methods to state-of-the art, guided procedures. It uses image-based planning and guided instrumentation to enable procedures that provide consistent accuracy to 1 mm (1/25 inch), which is superior to "freehand" human ability. Mazor Robotics technology is highly precise and has been clinically validated in studies worldwide. For example, a large international study that was published in Spine, a leading professional journal, demonstrated a high level of accuracy -- 98.3% accuracy (typically accuracy for spine surgery is about 90%4). Approximately half of these were minimally invasive procedures (typically only 10%-20% of spine surgeries are MIS).3

Renaissance™ Supports Major Spine Procedures

Renaissance™ is clinically versatile, supporting several spine procedures requiring a high degree of accuracy including:

  • Spinal fusion
  • Scoliosis correction and revisions
  • Kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures
  • Biopsies for spinal tumors or infections


If you are considering spine surgery:



1 Kantelhardt, SR, Martinez R, Baerwinkel S, Burger R, Giese A, Rohde V. Perioperative course and accuracy of screw positioning in conventional, open robotic-guided and percutaneous robotic-guided, pedicle screw placement.. Eur Spine J. 2011;20(6):860-868. doi:10.1007/s00586-011-1729-2.

2 Pechlivanis I, Kiriyanthan G, Engelhardt M, et al. Percutaneous placement of pedicle screws in the lumbar spine using a bone mounted miniature robotic system, first experiences and accuracy of screw placement. Spine. 2009;34(4):392–398.

3 Devito, DP, Kaplan, L, Dietl R, et al. Clinical acceptance and accuracy assessment of spinal implants guided with SpineAssist surgical robot: retrospective study. Spine. 2010;35(24):2109-2115.

4 Kosmopoulos V, Schizas C. Pedicle screw placement accuracy: a meta-analysis. Spine. 2007;32(3):E111-20.