3D-printed personalised prostheses for bone defect repair and reconstruction following resection of metacarpal giant cell tumours.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conventional surgical treatment for metacarpal giant cell tumours (GCTs) includes lesion scraping followed by bone grafting or bone cement filling and en bloc resection followed by repair and reconstruction using a vascularised bone flap. However, these methods have inherent shortcomings, including a high postoperative recurrence rate and poor mechanical stability. 3D-printing techniques are increasingly being applied in medicine, and 3D-printed personalised prostheses have achieved good clinical effects in orthopaedic repair and reconstruction. We aimed to investigate the clinical effects of 3D-printed personalised prostheses for bone defect repair and reconstruction following resection of metacarpal GCTs.

Methods

Three patients with metacarpal GCTs were e

SUBMITTER: Xu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506718 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature