Long-term behaviour of cryopreserved arterial grafts verus prosthetic micrografts

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-431

  Pascual, G ^a   Martinez S ^b   Garcia Honduvilla N ^a   Corrales, C ^a   Bellon J M ^a   Bujan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b Hospital Dr Pesset   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryoisografts; Prosthetic micrografts; Vascular substitutes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; POLITEF; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTIMA; ISOGRAFT; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TIME; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 12144287179     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2004.01.029     Document Type: Article

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