WORKSHOPS

A1: Custom-made surgical guides

The individual template (or customized surgical guides) approach has been originally developed and evaluated in different clinical applications in orthopaedic surgery in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, applications in other disciplines such as cranio-facial surgery as well as dental implantology have been established. Due to its intraoperative simplicity and intuitive handling together with a proven effectiveness and efficiency for selected applications, the individual template approach today is adopted by many clinicians and companies world wide. The workshop will provide a critical review of the benefits and bottlenecks of the template technique - from a historical review to its actual techniques and applications.

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Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 14:00-18:15
Location: Palais des Congrès de Versailles (Versailles Convention Center)
Place du Château
10, rue de la Chancellerie
78 000 Versailles
France
Room: To be announced
Converners: Klaus Radermacher & Hans-Walter Staudte
Program:
Klaus Radermacher (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Introduction and technical verview
Hans-Walter Staudte (Medical Center DAC, Würselen, Germany)
Early applications and clinical experiences in spine and hip surgery
Erik Schkommodau (FHNW, Muttenz, Switzerland)
Comparative clinical study in spine surgery
Frank Portheine (SurgiTAIX AG, Aachen, Germany)
CT-based planning of individual template based interventions in TKA
Manuela Kunz, John F. Rudan (Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
The design and use of individualized templates for reconstructive orthopaedic surgery
Mahmoud A. Hafez (Orthopaedic Unit, O6 University, Kairo, Egypt)
Patient-specific cutting guides for total knee replacement (TKR): Principles & clinical application
Emmanuel Thienpont (University Hospital Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium)
Patient specific instruments with signature, who needs navigation now?
Philipp Lang (CONFORMIS Inc., Burlington, MA, USA)
Patient specific unicompartmental knee resurfacing using image to implant fit technology combined with patient specific surgical guides