Surgeons in Beijing, China, have successfully implanted an artificial, 3D-printed vertebra replacement in a young boy with bone cancer. They say it is the first time such a procedure has ever been done. During a five-hour operation, the doctors first removed the tumor located in the second vertebra of 12-year-old Minghao’s neck and replaced it with the 3D-printed implant between the first and third vertebrae.
