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ArticleArchives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases2025

3D printing in medicine: bridging imaging, education, and practice.

Sotirios Anagnostopoulos, Nikolaos Baltayiannis, Nikolaos E Koletsis, Francesk Mulita, Foteini Spanou, Vasileios Leivaditis, Paraskevi Katsakiori, Georgios Tsakaldimis, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos, Sofoklis Mitsos and 2 more

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Article in Archives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Sotirios AnagnostopoulosHealth Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos BaltayiannisDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Metaxa Cancer Hospital, Piraeus, Greece.
Nikolaos E KoletsisBiochemistry, Biochemical Analysis and Matrix Pathobiology Research Group, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Greece.
Francesk MulitaDepartment of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Foteini SpanouDepartment of Medical Physics, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Vasileios LeivaditisDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Paraskevi KatsakioriDepartment of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Georgios TsakaldimisDepartment of Urology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Konstantinos NikolakopoulosDepartment of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Sofoklis MitsosDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Periklis TomosDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Efstratios KoletsisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

3D printing is an additive manufacturing technology. The methodology involves designing the object in a digital environment, in a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) computer program, which then converts the 3D image file into an STL (Standard Triangulation Language) file to be loaded and read by the printer. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the main technology that caused intense discussions, since the first stereolithography technique used by Charles Hull in 1983, has been the conversion of digital models into physical objects. 3D printers became commercially available in the 1980s, with the market growing exponentially in the 1990s and 2000s. Medical applications for 3D printing have been reported since 1990. Stereolithographic modeling of cardiac structures was described by Binder in 2000 for better diagnostic access and surgical planning. In improving healthcare, 3D printing, i.e. the conversion of digital models into physical objects, plays an important and multiple/multifaceted role.

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3D modeling3D printingcongenital heart diseasedigital environmentinterventional cardiologymedical trainingvalve surgery

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PMID41142700
PMCPMC12550675

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