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Saturday 23 August 2014

12-Year-Old Receives First 3D Printed Vertebra Implant | IFLScience



After a soccer injury revealed a malignant tumor on the spinal cord of a 12-year-old boy from China, he required extensive surgery at Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH). Doctors needed to remove second vertebra to prevent the cancer from spreading, and the bone required an implant afterward. Th…

by José Lourenço via Facebook at August 23, 2014 at 03:33PM

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