Biocompatibility of agarose gel as a dermal filler: Histologic evaluation of subcutaneous implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1161-1169

  Fernández Cossío, Sergio ^a   León Mateos, Alvaro ^b   Sampedro, Francisco Gude ^b   Oreja, María Teresa Castaño ^b  

^a Clinica de Cirugia Estetica Fernandez Y Fernandez Cossio   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOENGINEERING; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; GEL; GRANULOMA; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; GELS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPHAROSE;

EID: 34848823520     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279475.99934.71     Document Type: Article

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