A Spanish cancer patient is the first person in the world to receive a titanium 3D-printed sternum and rib cage, designed and ... from out point of view, is going to have the patient go into ...

The sternum and rib cage features a complexgeometry that means the flat and plate implants traditionally used for thispart of the chest can come loose over time. For this reason, the surgical team ...

In the latest example of an innovative leap forward, a cancer patient in Spain has become the world's first recipient of a 3D-printed Titanium rib cage and sternum, GizMag reports. The 54-year-old ...

It forms the front of the rib cage, protecting the heart, lungs, and other major blood vessels. The vast majority of sternal fractures are caused by direct trauma to the chest. This trauma is ...

One example comes from Australia, where the government-supported printing center Lab 22 3D printed the first sternum and rib cage in the world. The implant was solicited by a Spanish clinic for ...

For the first time, a patient has received a custom, 3D-printed titanium implant to replace part of his rib cage. The 54-year-old Spanish man had chest wall sarcoma, a cancerous tumour that grows ...

Your sternum, or breastbone, connects the two sides of your rib cage. It sits in front of many major organs in your chest and gut, including your heart, lungs, and stomach. As a result ...

A Spanish cancer patient has had their sternum and rib cage replaced with a 3D-printed titanium model. Via the CSIRO blog, the 54-year-old patient was suffering from a chest wall sarcoma ...

Q Two weeks ago I fell in my garden, landing on a bench and with the left side of my rib cage ... sternum via costal cartilage; and the last two are known as "floating" ribs as they have no ...

But look again. Doctors in Spain say this is the world's first 3-D-printed rib cage, made entirely from titanium. And they've already implanted the device into the chest of a 54-year-old cancer ...

An Australian-made 3D-printed sternum and rib cage has successfully been implanted into a 20-year-old New York patient who had been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, the Commonwealth Scientific ...

But look again. Doctors in Spain say this is the world's first 3-D-printed rib cage, made entirely from titanium. And they've already implanted the device into the chest of a 54-year-old cancer ...