Comparison of angiogenic activities after urethral reconstruction using free grafts in rabbits

European Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 417-421

  Gardikis, Stefanos ^a   Giatromanolaki, Alexandra ^a   Ypsilantis, Petros ^a   Botaitis, Sotiris ^a   Perente, Sabach ^a   Kambouri, Aikaterini ^a   Efstathiou, Eleftheria ^a   Antypas, Spyros ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Touloupidis, Stavros ^a   Sivridis, Efthimios ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Angiogenic activity; Bladder mucosa graft; Buccal mucosa graft; Free skin penile graft; Graft; Neovascularization; Rabbit; Urethral defect; Urethral reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CD32 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLADDER MUCOSA; CHEEK MUCOSA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE SKIN GRAFT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHROTOMY;

EID: 13844256673     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2004.10.014     Document Type: Article

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