ArticlePlastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open2021
PolliRS: A 3D-printed Pollicization Retractor System that Improves Access and Autonomy during the Surgical Procedure.
Article in Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We demonstrate the design, manufacture, and deployment of the first custom-made 3-dimensional (3D)-printed hand retractor for the pollicization procedure. Radiological images of the patient's hand were taken preoperatively to measure anatomical dimensions and guide the design of the device in a patient-precise manner. The 3D-printed, sterilizable, device was autoclaved and successfully used on a patient that underwent a pollicization procedure in our unit. The radiolucency of the device and the fluency enabled by the ability to exchange between different positions demonstrated the potential of this device in increasing the overall autonomy afforded to the lead-surgeon during the operation and demonstrated the potential of rapid-prototyping techniques such as 3D printing for producing patient-precise tools on-the-fly that taken account the specific needs of the patient.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.