High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Lumbar cage design concepts based on additive manufacturing
O. Figueroa, C.A. Rodríguez, H.R. Siller, O. Martínez-Romero & E. Flores-Villalba
Centro de Innovación en Diseño y Tecnología, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
J.A. Díaz-Elizondo
Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
R. Ramírez
CENTRA Hospital, Monterrey, México
ABSTRACT: The scope of this work is to present a new design concept for spinal surgery implants based on
additive manufacturing. The proposed design concepts for lumbar spaces (or cages) exploit the capacity of the
additive manufacturing technologies to generate hollow ...