Leonardo Frizziero, Gian Maria Santi, Christian Leon-Cardenas, Giampiero Donnici, Alfredo Liverani, Paola Papaleo, Francesca Napolitano, Curzio Pagliari, Giovanni Luigi Di Gennaro, Stefano Stallone, Stefano Stilli, Giovanni Trisolino, Paola Zarantonello
Three-dimensional printed custom cutting guides (CCGs) are becoming more and more investigated in medical literature, as a patient-specific approach is often desired and very much needed in today's surgical practice. Three-dimensional printing applications and computer-aided surgical simulations (CASS) allow for meticulous preoperatory planning and substantial reductions of operating time and risk of human error. However, several limitations seem to slow the large-scale adoption of 3D printed CCGs. CAD designing and 3D printing skills are inevitably needed to develop workflow and address the study; therefore, hospitals are pushed to include third-party collaboration, from highly specialized medical centers to industrial engineering companies, thus increasing the time and cost of labor...
May 26, 2021: Bioengineering