Tissue engineered prefabricated vascularized flaps

Head and Neck

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 458-464

  Oo, Kenneth Kian Kwan ^a   Wei, Chen Ong ^b   Ang, Annette Hui Chi ^a   Hutmacher, Dietmar W ^a   Tan, Luke Kim Siang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Polylactic co glycolic acid (PLGA); Prefabricated; Tissue engineering; Vascularized

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POLYGLACTIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; FIBROBLAST; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE FLAP; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN LIGATION;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; LACTIC ACID; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, NUDE; SKIN; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34248330965     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20546     Document Type: Article

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