Are the costs of 3D printing for surgical procedures yet to be definitively assessed?

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Clinical study of 3D-printed personalized prostheses for the treatment of traumatic metacarpophalangeal joint defects.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025
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2. The extensive use of 3D printing in trauma does not yet fit the value-based healthcare era.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2024
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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