Ricerc@Sapienza

Chest wall deseases can be rare or common congenital malformative disorders. We can count different types of chest wall desease such as pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum or more rare syndromes such as Polland one's.
Chest wall desease can include muscles, costals, or catilages deformities or agenesis.
Many patients do not wish to undergo thoracic remodeling operations, which are invasive and do not clearly result in respiratory or cardiac improvement.
For these reasons we propose an innovative procedure for correcting Chest wall desease using three-dimensional modeling.
The objective of reconstructive surgery is simply morphological and it's principle is to increase the volume of affected thoracic area using a custom-made implant.
The thoracic implants currently used consist of a medical-grade silicone rubber or elastomer: there's no envelope or filling product. The risk of deterioration and breaking are non-existent. It is puncture proof, untearable, and it has an unlimited lifespan.
The implant is specific for each patient and made using silicone casting made using a computer assisted construction from a 3D quality printer.
Correcting Chest wall deseases of patients that express the will of not undergo to a major thoracic surgery can be done, using a computer-aided design silicone implant fulfilled aesthetic and psychological demands, with significant improvements were seen in quality of life. The technique is simple and reliable and yields high-quality results, and three-dimensional computer-aided design has optimized the authors¿ reconstructions.