WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) — Surgeons are looking to make difficult and complicated surgeries easier with three-dimensional technology.

The technology will allow them to see what they’ll be dealing with before they operate.

One girl from Delaware is the first to have a 3D model made of her kidney. The Melendez family turned to Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, because 5-year-old Yaidailis had an itchy rash which doctors determined was caused by a kidney tumor.

‘Game-Changing’ New Approach To Heart Surgery Hopes To Make Recovery Shorter, Less Painful “Because of the likelihood this could be cancer, we’d have to be very careful removing the lesion,” urologist Dr. Jennifer Hagerty said. She says the hospital created the kidney model to help her precisely plan the surgery prior to the surgery. credit: CBS3 “Looking at this 3D model I was able to look at it and see how close it was […]

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