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Three-Dimensional Printing Applications in Thoracic Surgery
Antonia A Pontiki1, Kawal Rhode2, Savvas Lampridis3
1School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London; Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, 4th Floor, Lambeth Wing, London SE1 7EU, UK. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/AntoniaPontiki.
Abstract:
Advances in technology allowing the combination of medical imaging and three-dimensional printing have greatly benefitted thoracic surgery, allowing for the creation of complex prostheses. Surgical education is also a significant application of three-dimensional printing, especially for the development of simulation-based training models. Aiming to show how three-dimensional printing can benefit patients and clinicians in thoracic surgery, an optimized method to create patient-specific chest wall prosthesis using three-dimensional printing was developed and clinically validated. An artificial chest simulator for surgical training was also developed, replicating the human anatomy with high realism and accurately simulating a minimally invasive lobectomy.
