Biorheological features of some soft tissues under a surgical tissue expansion procedure

Biorheology

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 281-293

  Fu, Guangyu ^a   Zeng, Yanjun ^a   Xia, Zhaoji ^b   Lee, Jingping ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Arteries; Biomechanical; Histological; Saphenous nerves; Stress relaxation; Tissue expansion; Ultrastructural features; Veins

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BALLOON; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELASTIC FIBER; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RELAXATION TIME; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS; TIME; TISSUE EXPANSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0031416190     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-355X(98)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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