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Figure 2. A) Printing process with the fused deposition modeling 3d printer of the horseshoe kidney piece in acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic that would posteriorly be painted. B) Each of the real size 3D-printed pieces after being painted, red for the arterial system, blue for the venous system and orange for the kidney. All three regions were dockable and detachable. C) The physical kidney models were compared to the 3D reconstruction and the patient radiology data to confirm spatial coherence.