3D printed chest

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GRANDAD Peter Maggs had his chest rebuilt using 3D-printed technology in a British first. He needed three ribs and half his breastbone removed during an eight-hour op to remove a ­cancerous tumour the size of a tennis ball. They would normally have been reconstructed with a bone cement prosthesis prepared at the time of the […]

via Grandad has chest rebuilt using 3D-printed technology in British first — The Irish Sun

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