Changing the convexity and concavity of nasal cartilages and cartilage grafts with horizontal mattress sutures: Part I. Experimental results

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 589-594

  Gruber, Ronald P ^a   Nahai, Farzad ^a   Bogdan, Michael A ^a   Friedman, Gary D ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CARTILAGE GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOSE CARTILAGE; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

CADAVER; CARTILAGE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; NASAL SEPTUM; NOSE; ORGAN SIZE; PILOT PROJECTS; RHINOPLASTY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 14044261736     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000150145.39509.DB     Document Type: Article

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