Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Chinese doctors use 3D printer for skull surgery

CHONGQING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) - Doctors in southwest China's Chongqing district have effectively supplanted an area of a female growth patient's brow with a 3D-printed part.

The patient, Liu Li (Not her genuine name), who is in her mid 20s has had repetitive tumors for more than 16 years, and has kept her hair long at the front to cover the developments.

"I have had blasts for over 10 years, at long last I can develop my hair out and not be suspicious about my tumors," she clarified.

At the point when her tumors initially started to appear, around 16 years prior, Liu had them evacuated however they returned and became back bigger than some time recently. Notwithstanding numerous operations throughout the years, the tumors gave back unfailingly.

The tumors were inevitably recognized as amiable, yet because of their area they put weight against her right eye attachment, which means on the off chance that they were not expelled they would likely impede her vision and farthest point her engine aptitudes. Specialists concurred that a total extraction was the main reasonable methodology.

Also, because of the area of Liu's tumors the operation would distort her face and the harm would be practically difficult to repair by customary plastic surgery.

After discourse, a 3D-printed bone copy methodology was concurred as the best operation.

Liu experienced a high-accuracy CT filter so specialists could make a 3D remaking of her skull and print a 1:1 copy of the bone part, with an exactness of 20 microns.

The copy piece was then embedded and settled set up with titanium screws. The operation, which was led not long ago, was a win and Liu was released from doctor's facility a week in the wake of going under the blade.

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