Application of three-dimensional printing for pre-operative planning in hip preservation surgery.

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional printing is a valuable modality with broad clinical applications. Hip preservation surgery outcomes are dependent on correction of morphological abnormalities that may be optimally visualized with three-dimensional models. To assess the efficacy of three-dimensional models for patient and trainee education and to determine its benefits during pre-operative planning in hip preservation surgery. Sixteen patients with hip pathology were selected. Computed tomography was utilized to generate three-dimensional models. Customized Likert-style questionnaires were given to 10 hip preservation surgeons, 11 orthopedic surgery residents and 10 patients. All residents strongly agreed or agreed that the three-dimensional hip models helped them to understand patients' pathology. All bu

SUBMITTER: Bockhorn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662895 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature