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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2023

Legal issues and underexplored data protection in medical 3D printing: A scoping review.

Ante B V Pettersson, Rosa Maria Ballardini, Marc Mimler, Phoebe Li, Mika Salmi, Timo Minssen, Ian Gibson, Antti Mäkitie

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Clinical applications of 3D printing in spine surgery: a systematic review.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. A review of 3D printed medical implant design.3D printing in medicine · 2026
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  4. Review
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  6. Applications of 3D printing in orthopedics: a scoping review.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2025
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  7. Review
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  10. Core Legal Challenges for Medical 3D Printing in the EU.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ante B V PetterssonDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Rosa Maria BallardiniFaculty of Law, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Marc MimlerThe City Law School City, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Phoebe LiSussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Mika SalmiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Timo MinssenCenter for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ian GibsonDepartment of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
Antti MäkitieDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

3D printingadditive manufacturinglegal issueslegislationmedicalmedicineregulation

Identifiers

PMID36923458
PMCPMC10009255

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