Doctors 3D Print Exact Model of 7-Year-Old Girl’s Airway to Prepare for Delicate Operation.

[2greys]

The young girl required part of her right lung to be removed due a case of Ewing’s Sarcoma (a bone and soft tissue cancer) spreading to her lung. However, because of her small size (just 18kg at the time of the operation), her doctors had concerns that conventional tubing and devices used for lung operations in older patients may not be appropriate and thus decided to use CT scans to create a virtual reality program of her airway/wind pipe and lungs, and also an exact 3D printed plastic model so they could practice the operation beforehand.

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[Gladwyn]

Absolutely incredible. I’m living in an age when science fiction became fact. Wonderful! I hope the wee lass grows to be a fit and healthy young lady .

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Gladwyn]

It is like the replicators from Star Trek.

[watergazer]

3D printing is being used a lot in human and animal medicine/surgery. It’s so amazing. X