Do mature pulmonary lobes grow after transplantation into an immature recipient?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1165-1170

  Duebener, Lennart F ^a   Takahashi, Yutaka ^a   Wada, Hiromi ^a   Tschanz, Stefan A ^a   Burri, Peter H ^a   Schäfers, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG LOBE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-AIR BARRIER; FEMALE; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 0032722720     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00724-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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