Baby saved from blindness with 3D surgery in world first

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - Doctors at Turin's Molinette Hospital have saved a 40-day-old baby from blindness thanks to a surgical procedure in which 3D technology was used in a world first.
    The baby boy was suffering from a congenital cataract associated with a very rare and serious pathology of the back of the eye.
    The operation, a bilateral vitrectomy combined with congenital cataract surgery via 3D visualisation was performed on the front and back of both eyes by the hospital's ophthalmology department. (ANSA).