Delicate ribs offer protection Your ribs form a protective cage that encloses many of your delicate internal organs, such as your heart and lungs. Your rib bones themselves are quite fragile and ...

However, the patient’s surgeons had to remove a part of the skeleton to prevent tumors from spreading. Recreating the rib cage with artificial materials is very difficult. The geometric ...

The 54-year-old patient was suffering from a chest wall sarcoma that required removing sections of his skeleton after a cancerous tumor wrapped around his rib cage. Due to the complex structure of ...