Download Statistics
Download Statistics
Pelletier, Vincent, Petit, Yvan, Brailovski, Vladimir, Denis, Ronald, Studer, Anne-Sophie et Wagnac, Éric.
15 November 2017.
« Printing a 3D Stomach Teaching Tool for Bariatric Surgery ».
[Research article]. Substance ÉTS.
|
PDF
Substance 2017 17167 Printing a 3D Stomach Teaching Tool.pdf - Published Version Use licence: Creative Commons CC BY-NC. Download (913kB) | Preview |
Abstract
Obesity is a complex disease affecting 23% of the Canadian population, or over 8 million people. Bariatric surgery is a common technique of treating obesity. The most popular surgical technique, called gastric sleeve surgery, involves cutting the stomach and removing 70 to 80% of its total volume. Presently, it is difficult for physicians to clearly explain this operation to their patients because of its great complexity. This paper presents a new approach that aims to improve the effectiveness of physician-patient discussions. The approach is based on the latest additive manufacturing technologies used for 3D printing of an actual size human stomach, in a material mimicking its mechanical behaviour. Two manufacturing methods are analyzed and discussed. At present, the indirect method of making a mold by additive manufacturing and pouring a flexible material inside the mold to obtain a physical stomach model is best suited for this type of application.
| Item Type: | Non-peer reviewed article published in a journal or magazine | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refereed: | No | ||||
| Professor: |
|
||||
| Affiliation: | Génie mécanique, Génie mécanique, Génie mécanique | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2018 14:53 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2020 21:07 | ||||
| URI: | https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/17167 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |