====== Pedicle screw ====== {{ http://www.titamedspinalsystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Polyaxial-Pedicle-Screw.png?300}} [[Pedicle]] [[screw]]s are the most ubiquitous method of treating spinal pathologies requiring [[lumbar fusion]]. The use of [[pedicle]] [[screw]]s has become popular during the 1990s, first in applications involving the [[lumbar spine]] and subsequently in [[thoracic spine]] surgery. [[Monoaxial Screw]] [[Polyaxial Screw]] ===Screw pullout=== see [[Anchored screw]] see [[Cervical pedicle screw]] see [[Thoracic pedicle screw]] see [[S1 pedicle screw]] ===== Placement ===== [[Pedicle screw placement]]. ====Complications==== Neurological symptoms are likely associated only with severe [[screw misplacement]] ((Nevzati E, Marbacher S, Soleman J, Perrig WN, Diepers M, Khamis A, Fandino J. Accuracy of Pedicle Screw Placement in the Thoracic and Lumbosacral Spine Using a Conventional Intraoperative Fluoroscopy-Guided Technique: A National Neurosurgical Education and Training Centre Analysis of 1236 Consecutive Screws. World Neurosurg. 2014 Jun 17. pii: S1878-8750(14)00569-5. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2014.06.023. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 24954252.)).