Prefabricated engineered skin flap using an arteriovenous vascular bundle as a vascular carrier in rabbits

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1860-1875

  Tanaka, Yoshio ^a   Sung, Ki Chul ^b   Fumimoto, Michihiro ^b   Tsutsumi, Akira ^b   Kondo, Shunzo ^b   Hinohara, Yoshimi ^b   Morrison, Wayne A ^b  

^a Shinko Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EAR SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; INGUINAL REGION; MICROSURGERY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASA VASORUM; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTERY; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; EXTERNAL EAR; GRANULATION TISSUE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL SPONGE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; COLLAGEN; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; EAR, EXTERNAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRANULATION TISSUE; GROIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSURGERY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RABBITS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL SPONGES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 33646837813     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000218842.28359.f1     Document Type: Article

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