Table 2.
Regional availability of spine surgery instrumentation navigation techniques. 95 % confidence intervals are shown in Supplemental Material 2.
Neuronavigation techniques | Northern Africa | Western Africa | Central Africa | Eastern Africa | Southern Africa | P-Value |
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Freehand | 50.9 % | 87.5 % | 91.7 % | 18.2 % | 15.4 % | <0.001 |
Fluoroscopy | 98.1 % | 100 % | 100 % | 81.8 % | 92.3 % | 0.05 |
Stereotactic without CT | 49.1 % | 29.2 % | 0 % | 18.2 % | 7.7 % | 0.002 |
Stereotactic with CT | 0 % | 33.3 % | 0 % | 18.2 % | 0 % | <0.001 |
Robotic without CT | 0 % | 29.2 % | 0 % | 0 % | 0 % | <0.001 |
Robotic with CT | 49.1 % | 29.2 % | 0 % | 0 % | 0 % | <0.001 |