Malaysian oncologists perform country's first heel bone replacement with 3D printed mould


A medical team involved in Malaysia's first surgery to replace a an diesesed heel bone with a 3D moulded replacement for the calcaneal bone at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia's first 3D printed moulded calcaneal bone (heel bone) replacement was performed successfully on a young man by a team of oncologists from the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital here.

The procedure, using the 3D moulded heel bone, was done on the patient who suffered from a recurrence over a treated Giant Cell Tumour (a rare but aggressive non-cancerous tumour) of his heel bone (calcaneum).

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