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Cancer Patient Receives 3D-Printed Titanium Sternum and Ribs

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An anonymous reader writes: A Spanish cancer patient diagnosed with chest wall sarcoma has received the world's first 3D printed titanium sternum and rib cage. Anatomics, an Australian medical device company, designed and manufactured the metal rib cage. Cnet reports: "Once printed, finished and polished, the implant was couriered to the Salamanca University Hospital, where it was implanted into the patient's chest. It has now been two weeks since the surgery, and the patient has been discharged is recovering well."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cancer+Patient+Receives+3D-Printed+Titanium+Sternum+and+Ribs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1LcbqJY"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F09%2F14%2F0323219%2Fcancer-patient-receives-3d-printed-titanium-sternum-and-ribs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/14/0323219/cancer-patient-receives-3d-printed-titanium-sternum-and-ribs?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/14/0323219/cancer-patient-receives-3d-printed-titanium-sternum-and-ribs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/0D0sErhPjVI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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