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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 85:49-55 (2003)
© 2003 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Rapid Prototyping: The Future of Trauma Surgery?

George A. Brown, MS, MD, Keikhosrow Firoozbakhsh, PhD, Thomas A. DeCoster, MD, José R. Reyna, Jr., MD and Moheb Moneim, MD

Corresponding author:
George A. Brown, MS, MD
Department of Orthopaedics, MSC10 5600, 1 University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001. E-mail address: gbrown@salud.unm.edu

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Surgeons frequently must perform delicate surgery without the benefit of a firsthand look at what they will be operating on. Fracture orientation can be difficult to conceptualize, especially in the acetabulum or spine. Anatomic reduction and stable fixation remain a challenge and have required long incisions with wide exposure, sometimes with increased postoperative morbidity1-9. The inadvertent penetration of screws into the hip joint, during the treatment of both complex acetabular fractures and posterior wall pelvic fractures, has been well documented10,11. Successful surgical correction of deformities of the hip joint before the onset of osteoarthritis requires accurate characterization of the anatomic deviations from normal as the first step in the planning of a corrective osteotomy. Pedicle screws inserted with a standard surgical technique have sometimes penetrated the wall or even missed the pedicle12-20. Diagnostic techniques such as radiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging provide only two-dimensional images . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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