The world’s first ‘space-age’ bone that saved a Madrid patient’s leg from amputation
A Madrid hospital used aerospace engineering to 3D-print the world’s first ‘space-age’ bone, saving a patient’s leg from amputation.
Surgeons in Madrid seemed to be left with only one option: amputate. But instead, they built the patient a new bone from scratch, using a lattice structure borrowed from spacecraft engineering that the human body now can’t tell apart from its own. A ... [3536 chars]