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Health
Simona Kitanovska

3D Printed Skull Saves Baby Born With Exposed Brain

The 3D-printed baby skull created by the Polish tech company Sygnis, in February 2022. The print-out was used to perform life-saving surgery on a baby in the Neonatal Pathology and Intensive Care Unit at the University Children’s Hospital in Krakow, Poland. (Sygnis SA,SWNS/Zenger)

A baby born with its brain exposed has had life-saving surgery – thanks to 3D print-outs being made of her skull.

The newborn, from Rzeszow in Poland, did not have a formed occipital bone, leaving brain tissue partially exposed.

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