Comparison of surgical procedures for vascular and airway anastomoses that utilize a "modified" non-suture external cuff technique for experimental lung transplantation in rats

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 889-893

  Mizobuchi, Teruaki ^a,b   Sekine, Yasuo ^a   Yasufuku, Kazuhiro ^a   Fujisawa, Takehiko ^a   Wilkes, David S ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ISCHEMIA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 3242723857     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2003.06.009     Document Type: Article

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