3D Printing: The New Frontier of Surgery?

A team of neurosurgeons at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio used 3D printing — a technology recently gaining more ground in the surgical world — to assist in a brain aneurysm repair. In one of the first procedures of its kind, physicians in Cleveland Clinic’s Cerebrovascular Center were guided before and during the operation via the use of a 3D-printed model of the patient’s aneurysm and the surrounding area. Read full story here.
By: Alyssa Capel