Face transplantation: The view from Harvard Medical School

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 414-416

  Peled, Ziv M ^a   Pribaz, Julian J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANTIGENICITY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ETHICS; FACE TRANSPLANTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

ESTHETICS; FACIAL INJURIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFORMED CONSENT; MASS MEDIA; MASSACHUSETTS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PUBLIC OPINION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33646480203     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000208480.00493.d7     Document Type: Short Survey

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