3D Printed Surgical Models Help Separate Conjoined Twins

Twins Yu Ce Yuan and Yu Ce Xiang parents had been too poor for any prenatal care, so unfortunately this led to their mother giving natural birth to them while joined at the abdomen and pelvic bone. Yuan and Xiang’s parents were very poor and found themselves unable to pay for the life saving surgery but a charity called Love Without Boundaries was able to help them raise $60,000 to pay for a complicated surgery at Fudan University in Shanghai. The doctors took detailed CT and MRI scans of the twins, converted that data into 3D printable models and used that model to pre-plan the surgical separation of the twins. You can read more about this amazing case over on 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/122967/separate-conjoined-twins/
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