CSIRO uses to 3D printing to create new ribs for Spanish cancer patient

[1] A collaboration between the CSIRO and Melbourne medical device company Anatomics have managed to 3D print a new, customised titanium sternum and ribcage for a Spanish cancer patient.

[2] Anatomics used the CSIRO’s 3D printing facility, Lab 22, to create the implant 54-year-old patient, who suffered from a chest wall sarcoma – that needed replacing his sternum and part of his ribcage.

[3] $1.3 million Arcam 3D printer was used at Lab 22 to make the titanium implant.

[Source]  Australian Information Technology News – CSIRO uses to 3D printing to create new ribs for Spanish cancer patient