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Rubén Pérez-Mañanes, Oncological Orthopedic Surgeon: "What for an Engineer Is Science Fiction, as It Can Be to Dry a Leg Sarcoma, for Us Doctors Is to Be Able to Send a Satellite to Space"
The Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid has successfully implanted a pioneering prosthesis in the world made of titanium metamaterial and 3D printing to reconstruct the leg of a patient affected by a tumor. The technology comes from the aerospace field and has allowed to save the limb after suffering severe complications. In an intervention in COPE’s ‘La Tarde’, scientific communicator Jorge Mayor has detailed that the implant has an internal po…
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The Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid has successfully implanted a pioneering prosthesis in the world made of titanium metamaterial and 3D printing to reconstruct the leg of a patient affected by a tumor. The technology comes from the aerospace field and has allowed to save the limb after suffering severe complications. In an intervention in COPE’s ‘La Tarde’, scientific communicator Jorge Mayor has detailed that the implant has an internal po…