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During the primary spine surgery, while the surgeon was performing l4/5 posterior lumber fusion, and when placing both the l4/5 guides, the surgeon had planned to place 45mm screws in l4 and 40 mm screws in l5 due to the trajectory from the drills he was only able to place 35 mm screws.In addition, when the surgeon went to check ap fluoroscopy placement of the l4 right sided pedicle he noticed a medial break of the pedicle.The surgeon had drilled and placed pedicle markers, when this was found.After performing his decompression, he went back and revised the l4 screw trajectory with a free hand approach.The total delay with the guides and replacement of the l4 screw was 20 minutes.The surgery was completed successfully.
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