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British surgeon Craig Gerrand from Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital saved a patient’s life by printing a new pelvic printer on a three-dimensional printer bone. The need for replacement arose after the patient aggressive bone cancer (chondrosarcoma) developed, eating half pelvis, tells The Independent.
After implant transplantation, a patient whose age exceeds 60 years, got the opportunity to walk, though with a stick. The success of the procedure was due to the accuracy of the scan. Initially, doctors clearly knew how much bone tissue was needed. remove to stop cancer. The implant was perfect completely filling the formed cavity.
The implant is made of layers of titanium powder secured by a laser. Titanium is coated with a mineral substance in which the remaining bone tissue can sprout easily. That is, the border of the implant and the present bones should blur over time. Already attached to the implant conventional hip prosthesis. Cancer touched the whole right part of the pelvis, and the medications did not work. Therefore the implant was the only way out, Gerrand notes.
