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  1. The importance of reducing error rates in invasive procedures has led to the development of teaching phantoms. In collaboration with surgeons and engineers at the University Hospital of Leipzig, a new 3D-print...

    Authors: Katharina Scheidt, Fabian Kropla, Dirk Winkler, Robert Möbius, Martin Vychopen, Johannes Wach, Erdem Güresir and Ronny Grunert
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:16
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  2. This study introduces a surgical technique involving the use of 3D-printed all-metal prostheses combined with mesh patches for the treatment of distal radial giant cell tumors, analyzing and evaluating the mid...

    Authors: Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoning Tan, Zhenchao Yuan, Bin Liu and Jiachang Tan
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:15
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  3. Premature loss of primary teeth is a common occurrence in pediatric dentistry and often necessitates the use of space maintainers to prevent complications. Traditional space maintainers, such as band and loop ...

    Authors: Sakshi Metkar, Bhagyashree Thakur, Dian Agustin Wahjuningrum, Ali A Assiry, Khalid Alshamrani, Sudhir Rama Varma, Ajinkya M. Pawar and Mohmed Isaqali Karobari
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:14
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  4. Craniosynostosis is a congenital condition characterized by the premature fusion of cranial sutures, leading to potential complications such as abnormal skull growth, increased intracranial pressure, and cogni...

    Authors: Alicia Pose-Díez-de-la-Lastra, Mónica García-Sevilla, Austin Tapp, Manuel Tousidonis, Juan-Vicente Darriba-Alles, Marius George Linguraru, Javier Pascau and Santiago Ochandiano
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:13
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  5. Computer-assisted surgery has transformed the approach to jaw resection and reconstruction in recent years. However, the extensive time and technical expertise needed for the planning and creation of patient-s...

    Authors: Ankit Nayak, Jane Jingya PU, Xingna YU and Yu-Xiong Su
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:12
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  6. Technological constraints limit 3D printing of collagen structures with complex trabecular shapes. However, the Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) method may allow for precise 3D prin...

    Authors: Michael G. Kontakis, Marie Moulin, Brittmarie Andersson, Norein Norein, Ayan Samanta, Christina Stelzl, Adam Engberg, Anna Diez-Escudero, Johan Kreuger and Nils P. Hailer
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:11
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  7. The maturation of 3D printing technologies has opened up a new space for patient advancements in healthcare from trainee education to patient specific medical devices. Point-of-care (POC) manufacturing, where ...

    Authors: Matthew D. Marquardt, Nicholas Beemster, William Corcuera, Dylan T. Beckler, Kyle VanKoevering, Megan Malara, Teri Snyder and Zachary C. Thumser
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:10
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  9. Patients who undergo laparoscopic right hemicolectomy often have vascular anomalies, creating challenges for surgeons. Preoperative identification of vascular anomalies and intraoperative precise navigation ca...

    Authors: Zongxian Zhao, Rundong Yao, Yuan Yao, Zongju Hu, Shu Zhu and Fusheng Wang
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:8
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  10. The landscape of medical education is rapidly evolving, driven by advancements in technology. This evolution has ushered in a new era characterized by digitization, connectivity, and intelligence. In this era,...

    Authors: Jingjing Zhang, Xiuying Liu, Yinye Huang, Liangyi Kong, Min Su and Zheng Hu
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:7
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  11. Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) failures are associated with misplacement of the bone tunnels in up to 88%. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of ACL tunnel plac...

    Authors: Sophie C. Eberlein, Silvan Hess, Samuel F Schaible, Frank M. Klenke and Andreas Hecker
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:6
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  12. Bioprinting is a tissue engineering technique that is rapidly evolving to include complex clinical applications. However, there is limited evidence describing how far bioprinting has progressed past the pre-cl...

    Authors: Yumi Briones, Beatrice Pascua, Narra Tiangco, Isabel Crisostomo, Samantha Casiguran and Roland Remenyi
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  15. The emergence of 3D printing has revolutionized medical training and preoperative planning. However, existing models have limitations, prompting the development of newly designed flexible 3D-printed bone fract...

    Authors: Monica Ghidinelli, Dankward Höntzsch, Bedran Atici and Stefano Crespan
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:2
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  16. Penile implant surgery is the standard surgical treatment for end-stage erectile dysfunction. However, the growing complexity of modern high-tech penile prostheses has increased the demand for more practical t...

    Authors: Zixi Wang, Carlo Saija, Nicholas Raison, Abdullatif Aydin, Zhouyang Xu, Katie Zuo, Kawal Rhode and Antonia Pontiki
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2025 11:1
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  17. 3D technologies [Virtual and Augmented 3D planning, 3D printing (3DP), Additive Manufacturing (AM)] are rapidly being adopted in the healthcare sector, demonstrating their relevance in personalized medicine an...

    Authors: Arnau Valls-Esteve, Rubén I. García, Anna Bellmunt, Harkaitz Eguiraun, Ines Jauregui, Cristina del Amo, Nuria Adell-Gomez, Lucas Krauel and Josep Munuera
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:43
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  18. The most common surgical procedure to manage the malunion of the bones is corrective osteotomy. The current gold standard for securing the bone segments after osteotomy is the use of titanium plates and allogr...

    Authors: Adam Jakimiuk, Michaela Maintz, Magdalena Müller-Gerbl, Florian Markus Thieringer, Marco Keller, Alissa Guebeli and Philipp Honigmann
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:42
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  19. Breast cancer screening is implemented as part of governmental healthcare policy in many countries. While breast imaging tests contribute to reducing mortality, some breast cancers may emerge between these scr...

    Authors: Haruna Katori, Atsushi Fushimi, Soichiro Fujimura, Rei Kudo, Makiko Kamio and Hiroko Nogi
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:41
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  20. The development of phantoms to reduce animal testing or to validate new instruments or operation techniques is of increasing importance. For this reason, a blood circulation phantom was developed to test a new...

    Authors: Svenja Jung, Martin Hoffmann, Dirk Winkler, Erdem Güresir, Fabian Kropla, Sebastian Scholz and Ronny Grunert
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:40
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  21. This study compares the precision, accuracy, and user experience of 3D body surface scanning of human subjects using the Artec Leo hand-held scanner and the iPad Pro as 3D scanning devices for capturing cervic...

    Authors: Samuel D. J. Spears, Thomas Lester, Ryo Torii and Deepak M. Kalaskar
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:39
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  22. The use of 3D-printing in medicine requires a context-specific quality assurance program to ensure patient safety. The process of medical 3D-printing involves several steps, each of which might be prone to its...

    Authors: Lukas Juergensen, Robert Rischen, Julian Hasselmann, Max Toennemann, Arne Pollmanns, Georg Gosheger and Martin Schulze
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:38
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  24. Patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) printed anatomic models are valuable clinical tools that facilitate enhanced visualization of pertinent anatomic structures and have demonstrated benefits of reduced sur...

    Authors: Nicole Wake, Yenpo Lin, Ek T. Tan, Darryl B. Sneag, Sarah Ianucci and Maggie Fung
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:36
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  25. Smoking in pregnancy continues to cause significant morbidity to mothers and babies and contributes to tremendous costs to society. Maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) may differentiate smokers who quit or pregnan...

    Authors: John J. Coté, Remington D. Coté, Danielle B. Dilsaver, Suena H. Massey, Pooja Doehrman, Brayden P. Coté, Riley Kilzer and Amy S. Badura-Brack
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:35
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  26. Transseptal puncture (TSP) is a critical prerequisite for left-sided cardiac interventions, such as atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation and left atrial appendage closure. Despite its routine nature, TSP can be t...

    Authors: Aya Mutaz Zeidan, Zhouyang Xu, Lisa Leung, Calum Byrne, Sachin Sabu, Yijia Zhou, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, John Whitaker, Steven E. Williams, Jonathan Behar, Aruna Arujuna, R. James Housden and Kawal Rhode
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:34
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  27. 3D printing has a wide range of applications and has brought significant change to many medical fields. However, ensuring quality assurance (QA) is essential for patient safety and requires a QA program that e...

    Authors: Lukas Juergensen, Robert Rischen, Max Toennemann, Georg Gosheger, Dominic Gehweiler and Martin Schulze
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:33
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  28. Inferior vena cava filter (IVC) retrieval is most often routine but can be challenging with high morbidity in complex cases, especially those with an extended dwelling time. While risk of morbidity in complex ...

    Authors: Joonhyuk Lee, Frank J. Rybicki, Prashanth Ravi and Seetharam C. Chadalavada
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:32
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  29. The Trident II Tritanium acetabular shell is additively manufactured (3D printed), based on the established Trident ‘I’ Tritanium shell, produced using conventional methods; this study characterised their diff...

    Authors: Harry Hothi, Johann Henckel, Arya Nicum, Anna Di Laura, Klaus Schlueter-Brust and Alister Hart
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:31
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  30. Microsurgical clipping is a delicate neurosurgical procedure used to treat complex Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (UIAs) whose outcome is dependent on surgeon’s experience. Simulations are emerging as excel...

    Authors: Lorenzo Civilla, Philippe Dodier, Maria Chiara Palumbo, Alberto C.L. Redaelli, Markus Koenigshofer, Ewald Unger, Torstein R. Meling, Nikolay Velinov, Karl Rössler and Francesco Moscato
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:30
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  31. The use of three-dimensional (3D) printed anatomic models is steadily increasing in research and as a tool for clinical decision-making. The mechanical properties of polymers and metamaterials were investigate...

    Authors: Arthur K. F. Sakai, Ismar N. Cestari, Eraldo de Sales, Marcelo Mazzetto and Idágene A. Cestari
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:29
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  32. Distal locking is a challenging and time-consuming step in interlocked intramedullary nailing of long bone fractures. Current methods have limitations in terms of simplicity, universality, accuracy, speed, and...

    Authors: Zakaria Chabihi, Nizar Nouidi, Brahim Demnati, Mohamed Amine Benhima and Imad Abkari
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:28
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  34. . Mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (m-TEER) is a minimally invasive procedure for treating mitral regurgitation (MR). m-TEER is a highly technical procedure, and a steep learning curve needs to be over...

    Authors: Angel Babu, Michele Bertolini, Michael Mullen, Andrew Cook, Aigerim Mullen and Claudio Capelli
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:26
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  35. 3D printing holds great potential of improving examination, diagnosis and treatment planning as well as interprofessional communication in the field of gynecological oncology. In the current manuscript we eval...

    Authors: Anne Cathrine Scherer-Quenzer, Inga Beyers, Adam Kalisz, Stephanie Tina Sauer, Marcus Zimmermann, Achim Wöckel, Bülent Polat, Tanja Schlaiss, Selina Schelbert and Matthias Kiesel
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:25
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  36. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common types of liver cancer that could potentially be surrounded by healthy arteries or veins that a surgeon would have to avoid during treatment. A realistic...

    Authors: Abdulla Al-Thani, Abdulrahman Sharif, Sami El Borgi, Shameel Abdulla, Mahmoud Raja Ahmed Saleh, Reem Al-Khal, Carlos Velasquez, Omar Aboumarzouk and Sarada Prasad Dakua
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:24
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  37. The revolutionary technology of smartphone-based retinal imaging has been consistently improving over the years. Smartphone-based retinal image acquisition devices are designed to be portable, easy to use, and...

    Authors: Aisya Amelia Abdul Latip, Kuryati Kipli, Abang Mohammad Nizam Abang Kamaruddin, Rohana Sapawi, Kasumawati Lias, Muhammad Arif Jalil, Khairul Fikri Tamrin, Nurul Mirza Afiqah Tajudin, Han Yi Ong, Muhammad Hamdi Mahmood, Suriati Khartini Jali, Siti Kudnie Sahari, Dayang Azra Awang Mat and Lik Thai Lim
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:23
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  38. Acute otitis media (AOM) causes inflammation and hearing loss. Ventilation tubes are key in treatment. 3D printing improves prostheses in otorhinolaryngology, offering precision and greater adaptability.

    Authors: Luis Humberto Govea-Camacho, Irma Yolanda Castillo-López, Sergio Alejandro Carbajal-Castillo, Alejandro Gonzalez-Ojeda, Gabino Cervantes-Guevara, Enrique Cervantes-Pérez, Sol Ramírez-Ochoa, Sergio Jiram Vázquez-Sánchez, Gonzalo Delgado-Hernández, Jaime Alberto Tavares-Ortega, Samantha Emily González-Muñoz and Clotilde Fuentes-Orozco
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:22
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  39. Computer-aided modeling and design (CAM/CAD) of patient anatomy from computed tomography (CT) imaging and 3D printing technology enable the creation of tangible, patient-specific anatomic models that can be us...

    Authors: Maariyah Ahmed, Myra Garzanich, Luigi E. Melaragno, Sarah Nyirjesy, Natalia Von Windheim, Matthew Marquardt, Michael Luttrull, Nathan Quails and Kyle K. VanKoevering
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:21
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  40. Segmental bone defect animal studies require stable fixation which is a continuous experimental challenge. Large animal models are comparable to the human bone, but with obvious drawbacks of housing and costs....

    Authors: Kai Cheng, Haotian Zhu, Yuanhao Peng, Xinghua Wen and Huanwen Ding
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:20
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  41. Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology has impacted many clinical applications across medicine. However, 3D printing for Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB) has not yet been reported ...

    Authors: Prashanth Ravi, Michael B. Burch, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Isabella Liu, Shayne Kondor, Leonid L. Chepelev, Tommaso H. Danesi, Frank J. Rybicki and Antonio Panza
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:19
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  42. Ulnar shortening osteotomy (USO) has demonstrated good outcomes for patients with ulnar impaction syndrome. To minimize complications such as non-union, precise osteotomy and firm fixation are warranted. Despi...

    Authors: Kuan-Lin Chen, Cheng-Yu Yin, Hui-Kuang Huang, Yi-Chao Huang and Jung-Pan Wang
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:18
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  43. Microtia is a congenital malformation of the auricle that affects approximately 4 of every 10,000 live newborns. Radiographic film paper is traditionally employed to bidimensionally trace the structures of the...

    Authors: Alberto Díez-Montiel, Alicia Pose-Díez-de-la-Lastra, Alba González-Álvarez, José I. Salmerón, Javier Pascau and Santiago Ochandiano
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:17
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  44. 3D-printed temporal bone models enable the training and rehearsal of complex otological procedures. To date, there has been no consolidation of the literature regarding the developmental process of 3D-printed ...

    Authors: Andre Jing Yuen Ang, Shu Ping Chee, Joyce Zhi En Tang, Ching Yee Chan, Vanessa Yee Jueen Tan, Jordan Adele Lee, Thomas Schrepfer, Noor Mohamed Nisar Ahamed and Mark Bangwei Tan
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:16
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  45. Inadequate surface matching, variation in the guide design, and soft tissue on the skeletal surface may make it difficult to accurately place the 3D-printed patient-specific instrument (PSI) exactly to the des...

    Authors: Chen Wang, Siyi Huang, Yue Yu, Haijie Liang, Ruifeng Wang, Xiaodong Tang and Tao Ji
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:15
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  46. Surgical guides can improve the precision of implant placement and minimize procedural errors and their related complications. This study aims to determine how different disinfection and sterilization methods ...

    Authors: Badreddine Labakoum, Amr Farhan, Lhoucine Ben Taleb, Azeddine Mouhsen and Aissam Lyazidi
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:14
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  47. Bioresorbable patient-specific additive-manufactured bone grafts, meshes, and plates are emerging as a promising alternative that can overcome the challenges associated with conventional off-the-shelf implants...

    Authors: Michaela Maintz, Céline Tourbier, Michael de Wild, Philippe C. Cattin, Michel Beyer, Daniel Seiler, Philipp Honigmann, Neha Sharma and Florian M. Thieringer
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:13
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  48. Device-related bacterial infections account for a large proportion of hospital-acquired infections. The ability of bacteria to form a biofilm as a protective shield usually makes treatment impossible without r...

    Authors: Sophie Nilsson Zagiczek, Matthias Weiss-Tessbach, Manuel Kussmann, Doris Moser, Martin Stoiber, Francesco Moscato, Heinrich Schima and Christian Grasl
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:12
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  49. Multi-laser Additive Manufacturing systems hold great potential to increase productivity. However, adding multiple energy sources to a powder bed fusion system requires careful selection of a laser scan and in...

    Authors: Sean P. Philips, Abigail Tetteh, Matthew A. Di Prima, Albert Burchi and Daniel A. Porter
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:11
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  50. Femoral head avascular necrosis (AVN), or death of femoral head tissue due to a lack of blood supply, is a leading cause of total hip replacement for non-geriatric patients. Core decompression (CD) is an effec...

    Authors: Cameron Bell, Alborz Feizi, Gregory R. Roytman, Alim F. Ramji, Steven M. Tommasini and Daniel H. Wiznia
    Citation: 3D Printing in Medicine 2024 10:10
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