3D打印技术在肝脏外科应用现状及展望

随着3D打印技术在医学领域的蓬勃发展,传统医学正向着数字化精准医学转换。精准肝脏外科的特点是通过术前精准评估和手术规划、术中精细解剖止血而使患者获得最佳康复。3D技术通过影像学数据构建出肝脏仿真模型,可以让外科医师从三维角度上充分认识肝脏,从而更好完成术前评估与规划。生物3D打印作为近年新兴的学科,未来有望解决肝移植手术供体短缺、肝脏切除术后残肝体积不足等问题。

3D printing technology in hepatic surgery: current status and perspectives

With the vigorous development of 3D printing technology in medical field, the traditional medicine is now under transition towards digital precision medicine. Precision liver surgery is characterized by offering the utmost recovery for the patients through accurate preoperative assessments and surgical planning as well as meticulous intraoperative dissection and hemostasis. The 3D technology can construct a simulation model of liver through imaging data which allows surgeons to have a full knowledge of the liver from a three-dimensional perspective, and thereby to make a perfect preoperative evaluation and planning. As an emerging discipline in recent years, 3D bioprinting is expected to resolve the problems such as shortage of liver transplant donor and deficiency of residual liver volume after liver resection in the future.