Reconstruction of the urethral defects with autologous fascial tube graft in a rabbit model

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 835-842

  Sade, Çagri ^a   Uǧurlu, Kemal ^a   Özçelik, Derya ^b   Hüthüt, Ilkay ^a   Özer, Kürşat ^c   Üstündaǧ, Nil ^d   Saǧlam, Ibrahim ^b   Baş, Lütfü ^a  

^a SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b DUZCE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Defect; Fascia; Graft; Reconstruction; Urethra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS FASCIAL TUBE GRAFT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIZATION; FASCIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RABBIT; TISSUE GRAFT; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; URINARY TRACT FISTULA; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FASCIA; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RABBITS; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 36048982453     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2007.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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