3D printer helpful in rare lung transplant in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Date (R) and a fellow doctor of Kyoto University Hospital on May 14, 2014, hold models of a chest region and a lung produced by a three-dimensional printer for priori simulation of a rare lung transplant from a living donor. In the operation claimed to be the world's first of its kind, the lower lobe of a man's right lung was rotated before being transplanted to the place of his wife's severely afflicted left lung which had been removed in advance.

• Product Code
• ILEA001199234

• Registered date
• 2014/5/14 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2014 Kyodo News

• Media size
• 3968 × 2654 pixel

• Resolution
• 240 dpi

• Deployment size
• 595.06(KB)*

• Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.