In July last year, CSIRO help produce a replacement heel bone that was implanted into 71-year-old Len Chandler, a builder from Rutherglen Victoria, who was facing amputation of the leg below the knee following a diagnosis of cancer of the calcaneus, or heel bone.
In the space of two weeks, from first phone call to surgery, CSIRO and Anatomics were able to custom-design and present the titanium heel implant part to the St Vincent’s surgical team, in time for the surgery in the second week of July. Working from Anatomics’ schematics for the calcaneus heel bone, teams at Anatomics…
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