An artificial prosthesis to reconstruct donor defects following facial transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 574-576

  Renshaw, Anthony ^a   Chooneea, Teerathraj ^a   Clarke, Alex ^a   Butler, Peter E ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial prosthesis; Donor; Face transplant; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; SILICONE;

ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FACE MALFORMATION; FACE PROFILE; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME;

CASTS, SURGICAL; FACE; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 34547436938     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00674.x     Document Type: Article

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