On the ethics of composite tissue allotransplantation (facial transplantation)

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2071-2073

  Rohrich, Rod J ^a   Longaker, Michael T ^b   Cunningham, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BURN; CANCER; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONVALESCENCE; COUNSELING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ETHICS; FACE DEFORMITY; FACE SURGERY; FACE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; LYMPHOMA; ORGAN INJURY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK; SKIN FLAP; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FACE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

FACE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; PATIENT SELECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33646854688     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000201309.72162.38     Document Type: Editorial

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