Open AccessPrinting a patient-specific instrument guide for skull osteoma management
Author(s) -
TienHsiang Wang,
Hsu Ma,
LienHung Huang,
Yu-Cheng Hung,
Te-Han Wang,
Wen-Chung Yu,
Fang-Yao Chiu,
Shyh-Jen Wang,
Wei-Ming Chen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000364
Subject(s) - skull , osteoma , medicine , radiology , surgery
To surgically remove osteoma and to keep an optimal cosmetic profile would be very challenging. To solve the difficulty, we utilized the three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies in generating a patient-specific instrument guide (PSIG) for the safe removal of a skull bone tumor.