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PISA. The first implant in Tuscany of a vertebra printed in 3D has been successfully performed in recent weeks in Pisa, in the operating unit of Orthopedics and Trauma 2 Aoup led by the professor Rodolfo Capanna. The patient is a 56 year old man with a primary bone neoplasm affecting the third lumbar vertebra and treated in the oncology department of Prato Hospital.
After a biopsy confirming the malignancy of the lesion, the intervention of block resection of the L3 vertebra affected by the tumor and reconstruction of it was planned through a new vertebra, printed in titanium in 3D, obtained by re -development and reconstruction. Tactical examination of the patient.
The plant used was developed specifically for the 56-year-old patient, from the tac images of his spine, which were reconstructed in three dimensions to optimize the design of the implant. The collaboration of the surgeons with the ICT engineers (Instituto Tecnolgico de Canarias) made it possible to design a system perfectly in line with the block resection planned for the preoperative phase. The design has been optimized to obtain the most appropriate biomechanical conditions to promote colonization by the patient's bone tissue.
The implant was performed with a three-dimensional printer from grade 23 titanium powder. The intervention, which lasted 13 hours, was performed by double-sided surgical posterior and anterolateral, with the participation of 39, a multidisciplinary team. During the hospitalization, the patient resumed the badisted gait and was released under good conditions 14 days after the operation.
This intervention
is the result of a growing clinical and scientific collaboration between Rizzoli's oncological and degenerative vertebral surgery department directed by the physician Alessandro Gasbarrini and the University of Orthopedics and Traumatology II of Aup headed by Professor Capanna.
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