Tracheal transplantation: Are we any closer to the holy grail of airway management?

Chest

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1299-1300

  Ernst, Armin ^a,b   Ashiku, Simon ^a,b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA GRAFT; CARTILAGE CELL; DEATH; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRACHEA; TRACHEA DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751256308     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.130.5.1299     Document Type: Editorial

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