• 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, P.R.China;
  • 2. West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, P.R.China;
LIN Feng, Email: linfeng0220@aliyun.com
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Because of the characteristics such as accurate, efficient and individuation, 3D printing is being widely applied to manufacturing industry, and being gradually expanded into the medical field. Diseases of chest wall is a common type in thoracic surgery, and surgery is a proper treatment to this kind of disease. For the past few years, 3D printing is being gradually applied in surgery of chest wall diseases. The article mainly makes a statement of two parts that including the possibility to apply 3D printing including chest wall reconstruction and chest wall orthopedic, and to analyze the possibility and application prospect of applying 3D printing to the chest wall disease.

Citation: LU Tianjian, CHEN Nan, LIAO Hu, KOU Yingli, LIN Feng. Advances in the application of 3D printing technology in chest wall disease surgery. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2018, 25(11): 1003-1006. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201803030 Copy

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