Open AccessDoes Three-dimensional Printing Plus Pedicle Guider Technology in Severe Congenital Scoliosis Facilitate Accurate and Efficient Pedicle Screw Placement?
Author(s) -
Ming Luo,
Wengang Wang,
Ningning Yang,
Lei Xia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000000739
Subject(s) - medicine , scoliosis , congenital scoliosis , surgery , idiopathic scoliosis , flexibility (engineering) , orthodontics , statistics , mathematics
Three-dimensional (3-D) printing offers the opportunity to create patient-specific guides for pedicle screw placement based on CT-generated models. This technology might allow for more-accurate placement of pedicle screws in patients with severe congenital scoliosis who have rotated vertebrae and small pedicles, but to our knowledge, this premise has not been tested.