Complicated abdominal wall closure in intestinal transplant recipients

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-131

  Carlsen, Brian T ^a   Rudkin, George H ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall defect; Abdominal wall transplantation; Intestinal transplantation; Split thickness skin graft

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ENTEROPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE FAILURE; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21044452169     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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