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16/08/2021

Customised 3D printed cutting guides for femoral osteotomy created by the UCA

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The Journal of Clinical Medicine has recently published an article on a new procedure to perform femoral osteotomies using customised guides designed and printed with 3D technology by the Arthroscopic Surgery Unit of Dr. Mikel Sánchez (UCA, according to the Spanish acronym).

This technique aims to correct rotational malalignment, a common complication of femoral diaphysis injuries. To this end, a planning and 3D printing procedure of cutting guides were developed. Then, patients with malalignment due to a femoral diaphyseal fracture were operated on. The result after surgery was that all patients had a normalised femoral anteversion angle according to their contralateral limb.

The data therefore suggest that the use of customised cutting guides for femoral osteotomy is a safe surgical technique that provides very accurate results when correcting femoral malrotation.

 Doctors Jaime Oraa, Maider Beitia, Nicolás Fiz, Sergio González, Xabier Sánchez, Diego Delgado and Mikel Sánchez from the Arthroscopic Surgery Unit of Dr. Mikel Sánchez participated in this procedure.

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