Tuesday 6 December 2016

Artificial organs that look and bleed like the real thing take surgical practice to the next level



Practice makes perfect, but if you're a surgeon, truly realistic practice also means doing so at the patient's risk. To provide surgeons and students with an alternative to a living human being to work on, a pair of physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have developed a way to use 3D printing to create artificial organs that look, feel, and even bleed like the real thing.

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Category: Medical

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3D Printing
Surgery
University of Rochester

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