Experimental model of facial transplant [10]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1374-1375

  Bermúdez, Luis Eduardo ^a   Santamaria, Alida ^a   Romero, Tomas ^a   Calderón, Diego Fernando ^a  

^a NONE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; DOG; FACE SURGERY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JUGULAR VEIN; LETTER; MUSCLE FLAP; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FACE; FACIAL MUSCLES; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036785502     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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