PSI-assisted applications include pedicle screw insertion, hip arthroplasty, and corrective osteotomy. In a recent experimental ... read more ↘ study, we proposed the first ISO evaluation of accuracy in bone tumor surgery assisted by 3D printing and navigation, involving more than 20 orthopaedic surgeons, and assessed quantitatively an equivalent value-added of both PSI and navigation technologies in terms of the achieved surgical margins during simulated bone tumor resections. A number of patients underwent successful operations. Although follow-up is not yet sufficient to establish a correlation with oncological outcomes (e.g. the risk of local recurrence), the observed data showed that bone cuts were performed with very good accuracy when compared with the desired safe margins. Presented by Olivier Cartiaux, Research Scinetist, University of Louvain ↖ read less
