TY - JOUR
AU - Bagde, Ashutosh D.
AB - PurposeThis paper aims to provide an overview of applications of medical rapid prototyping (MRP)-assisted customized surgical guides (CSGs) and shows the potential of this technology in complex surgeries. This review paper also reports two case studies from open literature where MRP-assisted CSGs have been successfully used in complex surgeries.Design/methodology/approachKey publications from the past two decades have been reviewed.FindingsThis study concludes that the use of MRP-assisted CSGs improves the accuracy of surgery. Additionally, MRP-assisted CSGs make the surgery much faster, accurate and cheaper than any other technique. The outcome based on literature review and two case studies strongly suggested that MRP-assisted CSGs might become part of a standard protocol in the medical sector to operate the various complex surgeries, in the near future.Practical implicationsAdvanced technologies like radiology, image processing, virtual surgical planning (VSP), computer-aided design (CAD) and MRP made it possible to fabricate the CSGs. MRP-assisted CSGs can easily transfer the VSP into the actual surgery.Originality/valueThis paper is beneficial to study the development and applications of MRP-assisted CSGs in complex surgeries.
TI - Applications of medical rapid prototyping assisted customized surgical guides in complex surgeries
JF - Rapid Prototyping Journal
DO - 10.1108/RPJ-02-2015-0021
DA - 2016-10-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/applications-of-medical-rapid-prototyping-assisted-customized-surgical-Go2cnPwDuc
SP - 934
EP - 946
VL - 22
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -