Face transplants: Is the genie out of the bottle?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 427-429

  Hutchison, Iain ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AUTOGRAFT; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; FACE TRANSPLANTATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ESTHETICS; FACIAL INJURIES; FAMILY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFORMED CONSENT; MASS MEDIA; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SELF CONCEPT; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33646482723     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000208426.29521.cf     Document Type: Short Survey

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