Mechanical behavior of a total chest wall prosthesis with rib-like features

A. Girotti; F. Rosa; M. Ferrotto; P. Girotti; U. Pastorino

doi:10.1080/10255842.2017.1391952

Mechanical behavior of a total chest wall prosthesis with rib-like features

A. Girotti, F. Rosa, M. Ferrotto, P. Girotti, U. Pastorino

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Abstract

The Department of Thoracic Surgery of the National Institute of Cancer in Milan developed a new rib-cage prosthesis which tries to combine flexibility, protection and bio-compatibility. This new replacement concept has been implanted in many patients, showing cheering results in term of reconstructions simplicity, postoperative complications reduction and patients comfort. This paper investigates and discusses in detail the mechanical behavior of the innovative rib cage prosthesis. Mechanical strength and stiffness are numerically evaluated in order to asses its limits and if it is fully compatible with patients ‘normal’ life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1581-1588
Number of pages	8
Journal	Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
Volume	20
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2017.1391952
Publication status	Published - Nov 18 2017

Keywords

finite element analysis
Rib cage prosthesis
rib cage stiffness
rib cage strength

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Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Science Applications

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