Tissue engineering in head and neck reconstructive surgery: What type of tissue do we need?

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 264, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1343-1356

  Goessler, Ulrich Reinhart ^a   Stern Straeter, Jens ^a   Riedel, Katrin ^b   Bran, Gregor M ^a   Hörmann, Karl ^a   Riedel, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Plastic surgery; Stem cells; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

AUTOGRAFT; BONE GRAFT; BONE TISSUE; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR SITE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE GRAFT; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SKIN GRAFT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 34848918186     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-007-0369-y     Document Type: Review

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