Adapting anatomy teaching to surgical trends: a combination of classical dissection, medical imaging, and 3D-printing technologies

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 361-367

  Fasel, Jean H D ^a   Aguiar, Diego ^a   Kiss Bodolay, Daniel ^a   Montet, Xavier ^b   Kalangos, Afksendiyos ^b   Stimec, Bojan V ^a   Ratib, Osman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Surgical anatomy training; Whole body computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE LOOP; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT SATISFACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; WHOLE BODY CT; EDUCATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PILOT STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; DISSECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84946761351     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: 12798517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-015-1588-3     Document Type: Article

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