• Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2005

    CAD generated mold for preoperative implant fabrication in cranioplasty.

    • J Wulf, L C Busch, T Golz, U Knopp, A Giese, H Ssenyonjo, S Gottschalk, and K Kramer.
    • Department of Anatomy, University of Luebeck, 23538 Luebeck, Germany. joergwulf@yahoo.de
    • Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005 Jan 1; 111: 608-10.

    AbstractIntraoperative fabrication of acrylic cranial implants may be difficult and will increase operation time. In addition forming implants directly on the defect, intracranial tissues are exposed to heat of polymerization and residual monomer, that occurs, when autopolymerizing methyl methacrylate is used intraoperatively. Furthermore the cosmetical result may be unacceptable. Preoperatively formed acrylic implants may reduce these disadvantages compared to conventional techniques in cranioplasty. We will present methods for preoperative fabrication of cranial implants for a cadaver specimen. Implants were fabricated using a Rapid prototyping (RP) models of the skull built by Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). In addition a mold of the defect was generated by CAD techniques, that can serve as a template for implant design.

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