Combining Virtual Surgical Planning and Patient-Specific 3D-Printing as a Solution to Complex Spinal Revision Surgery.

ABSTRACT: With the advent of three-dimensional printing, rapid growth in the field and application in spinal and orthopedic surgery has been seen. This technology is now being applied in creating patient-specific implants, as it offers benefits over the generic alternative, with growing literature supporting this. This report details a unique application of virtual surgical planning and manufacture of a personalized implant in a case of cervical disc replacement failure with severe osteolysis and resultant hypermobility. Where this degree of degenerative bone loss would often necessitate a vertebrectomy to be performed, this case highlights the considerable customizability of 3D-printed patient-specific implants to contour to the bony defects, allowing for a smaller and safer operation, with the ach

SUBMITTER: Tredan DAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9866145 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature