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Intermountain Medical Center. (2016, June 24). 3-D-printed kidney helps doctors save woman's organ during complicated tumor removal. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 10, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160624100250.htm

3-D-printed kidney helps doctors save woman's organ during complicated tumor removal

Date:

June 24, 2016

Source:

Intermountain Medical Center

Summary:

Doctors and scientists in one case printed and used a 3-D kidney to help save a patient's organ during a complicated tumor-removal procedural.

Doctors and scientists at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City printed and used a 3D kidney to help save a patient's organ during a complicated tumor-removal procedural.

The 3D-printed model allowed doctors to study the patient's kidney in 3D to determine how to best remove the tumor as it was located in a precarious location adjacent to vital arteries and veins.

Thanks to the 3D-printed model of the organ, doctors were able to maneuver around those sensitive areas and successfully remove the tumor and ultimately save the patient's kidney.

Linda Green's case was particularly precarious because her tumor was in the "business section" of the kidney: near an artery, veins and the ureter. It took a multi-disciplinary team, including collaboration between doctors at Intermountain Medical Center and specialists at Intermountain Healthcare's Transformation Laboratory, to find a solution to her unique medical problem.

Intermountain Medical Center Urological Institute director Jay Bishoff, MD, and radiologist Talmage Shill, MD, prepared CT scans to produce a 3D rendering of Green's kidney using technology at the Intermountain Transformation Lab, a facility that is the only one of it's kind in the Intermountain West.

Transformation Lab specialists Cory Smith and Billy Prows worked with Dr. Bishoff and Dr. Shill to render the CT scans for 3D printing. The team rendered and printed the...