Face transplantation: The view from Birmingham, England

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 424-426

  Wigmore, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; COMPOSITE GRAFT; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; ESTHETICS; FACE TRANSPLANTATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IDENTITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; ESTHETICS; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33646489310     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000208417.55857.ed     Document Type: Short Survey

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