Technologies
Private
Limited
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Protosys
Technologies Private Limited |
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This is a case of a 24 year old man who had met with
a vehicular accident and fractured his hip. The hip is a ball (femoral
head) and socket (acetabulum) type joint and in this case, the acetabulum
was fractured into 4 pieces. The reduction of this fracture was difficult
because it was located on the posterior side and also one of the smallest
fractured piece had been grossly dislocated and hence was obstructing the
normal process.
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| The 3D CT scan did show this small piece but it could not delineate the origin of this piece. The model enabled to locate the origin of this piece. A few pre-operative trials were done on the model to arrive at its proper orientation. This reduced the surgery time and possibly avoided additional surgeries as well. |