Surgical planning tool
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Belgium firm Materialise announces Sept. 17 plans for a randomized trial comparing standard X-ray-based surgical planning for wrist surgery and computer-assisted/computed tomography-based planning using the firm's 510(k)-cleared SurgiCase system. Materialise's technology or similar technology is marketed by several of the top orthopedics device firms as an add-on to their knee implant offerings (1"The Gray Sheet" Aug. 30, 2010)
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