How long can cryopreserved skin be stored to maintain adequate graft performance?

Burns

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 425-431

  Ben Bassat, H ^a   Chaouat, M ^a   Segal, N ^a   Zumai, E ^a   Wexler, M R ^a   Eldad, A ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryopreserved skin allografts; Transplantation performance

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL MODEL; CADAVER DONOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESERVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN GRAFT; STORAGE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CADAVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034939030     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(00)00162-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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