By Matthew Broderick
As a neurosurgeon at Danbury Hospital, with a specialty training in strokes, Dr. Joshua Marcus spends much of his time in the operating room performing surgeries that involve the cranium.
“For treatment of a stroke, hemorrhaging, or vascular disorders of the brain, a decompression surgery is sometimes necessary where patients need to have part of the skull taken off to relieve pressure,” Marcus said.
Those types of surgeries also require surgically-created cranial pieces to be reconstructed, which has created a market opportunity for Canton-based Kelyniam Global, a maker of custom cranial implants that uses 3D printing as part of the manufacturing process.