The effects of radiation on neovascularization in a rat model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 129-139

  Doyle, James W ^a   Li, Ya Qi ^b   Salloum, Ahmad ^b   FitzGerald, Thomas J ^b   Walton, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; GRANULOMA; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; GRANULATION TISSUE; GROIN; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029900152     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199607000-00020     Document Type: Article

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