Kickballs, Chicken and 3-D Models Help Johns Hopkins Surgeons Prepare for Complex Fetal Surgeries

By combining high-tech 3-D printing technology with everyday items such as a kickball and pieces of chicken breast, surgeons at Johns Hopkins report they have devised an innovative way to "rehearse" a complex minimally invasive surgical repair of open lesions on fetal spinal cords inside the womb.
 

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