Treatment of giant congenital nevi with cryopreserved allogeneic skin and fresh autologous cultured epithelium

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 483-488

  Kumagai, Norio ^a   Oshima, Hideo ^a   Tanabe, Masayoshi ^a   Ishida, Hirotomo ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NEVUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN GRAFT;

EID: 0030815224     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199711000-00007     Document Type: Article

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