Child’s kidney transplant aided by 3D printing – video report
by Guardian Staff from Technology | The Guardian on (#123Y9)
Chris Boucher, from Antrim in Northern Ireland, donated his kidney to his three-year-old daughter Lucy in a ground-breaking operation that was made possible using 3D printing technology. 3D replicas of Lucy's abdomen and her father's kidney were made before surgery. The printed models helped surgeons at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London plan how to put an adult-sized kidney into the body of a toddler