Eight years of clinical endothelial cell transplantation: Closing the gap between prosthetic grafts and vein grafts

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1997, Pages

  Meinhart, Johann ^a   Deutsch, Manfred ^a   Zilla, Peter ^b  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CELLS; GRAFTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; PROSTHETICS;

ENDOTHELIAL CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIALIZATION; PROSTHETIC GRAFTS; VEIN GRAFTS;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

FIBRONECTIN; POLITEF;

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VEIN GRAFT;

EID: 0031238929     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-199709000-00034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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