The beneficial application of preoperative 3D printing for surgical stabilization of rib fractures

• Ying-Yi Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3753-4877

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• Kuan-Hsun Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Hsu-Kai Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Hung Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Shih-Chun Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Tsai-Wang Huang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Yi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Lin, Hsu-Kai Huang, Hung Chang, Shih-Chun Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  * E-mail: chi-wang@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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