UNiD Patient-Specific Rod (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

UNiD Patient-Specific Rod

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In early November, NYU Langone Medical Center became the first hospital in the US to implant a patient with a new customized osteosynthesis rod precisely designed and manufactured preoperatively to properly realign the individual's spine, which had been severely deformed from scoliosis since childhood.

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