Severance Hospital "Completed Surgery Using the First Domestic Spinal Surgery Robot"

'Cubis Spine' Introduced... "Applied to a Total of 50 Surgeries This Year"

[Asia Economy Reporter Seo So-jung] Severance Hospital announced on the 15th that it has completed surgery using 'Cubis Spine,' the first spinal surgery robot developed with domestic technology in collaboration with Curexo.

Professor Lee Sung of Severance Hospital's Department of Neurosurgery recently performed percutaneous pedicle screw fixation using Cubis Spine on patients with spinal canal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis. Mr. Min (63, male), who underwent the surgery, had been suffering from pain in both legs and lower back for 10 years and was diagnosed with severe degenerative spondylolisthesis at lumbar vertebrae 3 and 4. The patient received percutaneous pedicle screw fixation through Cubis Spine, showed symptom improvement, and was discharged normally on the fifth day after surgery.

Treatment for spinal diseases is divided into non-surgical and surgical methods. In surgery, screws are used to fix the vertebral body. It is important to insert the screws accurately to avoid adverse effects on nerves and the spine. Until now, to improve surgical accuracy, real-time imaging was checked using mobile X-ray equipment such as C-ARM during surgery, but this posed a high risk of radiation exposure to both patients and medical staff. Accordingly, robot-assisted surgery is emerging as a global trend.

Cubis Spine is the first domestically produced spinal surgery robot and the fifth commercial robot worldwide. Severance Hospital plans to introduce the spinal surgery robot in a total of 50 surgeries this year and aims to apply it to 50 cases per month in the future.

Professor Lee said, "We expect to accumulate a track record of domestic products and create clinical evidence in the rapidly growing global field of spinal surgery robots, enabling market entry and industrial development simultaneously." He added, "We will contribute to the advancement and globalization of the domestic surgical robot industry by linking clinical data of spinal surgery robots with the Medical Robot Training Center to be established at Severance over the next five years.”

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