Rapid healing of venous ulcers and lack of clinical rejection with an allogeneic cultured human skin equivalent

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-300

  Falanga, Vincent ^a   Margolis, David ^b   Alvarez, Oscar ^c   Auletta, Michael ^c,d   Maggiacomo, Frank ^e   Altman, Morton ^h   Jensen, Jeff ^f   Sabolinski, Michael ^g   Hardin Young, Jan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c University Wound Healing Clinic   (United States)

^d ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Silver Lake Medical   (United States)

^f Diabetic Foot and Wound Center   (United States)

^g ORGANOGENESIS INC   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG COMPRESSION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING; WOUND CLOSURE;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BANDAGES; CATTLE; COLLAGEN; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 20644461035     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.134.3.293     Document Type: Article

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