Face transplantation: Where do we stand?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1429-1433

  Petit, François ^a   Paraskevas, Antonis ^b   Minns, Alicia B ^b   Lee, W P Andrew ^b   Lantieri, Laurent A ^b  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALLOGRAFT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TOXICITY; COMPOSITE GRAFT; ETHICS; FACE SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR TISSUE; ARTICLE; FACE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

FACE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 2342451865     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000112747.85388.39     Document Type: Review

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