Three things to know:
1. Jeffrey Hirsch, MD, section chief of community radiology for UMMC, collaborated with fellow radiologist Kenneth Wang, MD, to generate models for shoulder replacement surgeries.
2. Forming a shoulder model enables surgeons to visualize the anatomy and map where the hardware will go.
3. Over the course of a decade shoulder replacements have a much higher fail rate than knees due to bones being thinner and more fragile by trauma, arthritis and age, according to Dr. Wang.
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