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Designing patient-specific drilling guides for equine orthopaedic treatments

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Develop a protocol to create patient specific drilling guides for use in equine transcondylar screw placement surgeries.

Project Overview

Racehorses are susceptible to leg stress fractures along the metacarpal bone that can be fatal for the horse and also pose serious risks to the jockey. The standing CT on the market currently is used to detect early signs of fractures to allow preventative measures, such as surgery, to be taken. Currently, there is no consistent method for the surgery to be completed while reducing the opportunity for surgical error. The final product will be a protocol for the production and fabrication of a drill guide to be used in surgery. The drill guide will provide the surgeon with the optimal position to insert the screw into the horse bone to provide stiffness and mitigated future fracture risk.

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Eli Von Holtum, Kaci Vanlaningham, Morgan Prifogle, Julia Avivi, Yair Ben Shaul, Lucas Cramer
Eli Von Holtum, Kaci Vanlaningham, Morgan Prifogle, Julia Avivi, Yair Ben Shaul, Lucas Cramer

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