French surgeons use robot & 3D printed model to fix 6-year-olds spine in world-first surgery

French surgeons use robot & 3D printed model to fix 6-year-olds spine in world-first surgery

“A team of surgeons from the Amiens-Picardie University Hospital in France has successfully performed a complex spinal surgery on a six-year-old boy with the help of a robot and a patient-specific 3D printed model. The procedure was the first of its kind…”

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