Biodegradable urethral stent in the treatment of post-traumatic urethral strictures in a war wound rabbit urethral model

Biomedical Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 263-268

  Fu, Wei Jun ^a   Zhang, Bing Hong ^a   Gao, Jiang Ping ^a   Hong, Bao Fa ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Meng, Bo ^b   Zhu, Ning ^b   Cui, Fu Zhai ^b  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; RABBIT; SELF CONTROL; TISSUE REACTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; URETER STENT; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; UROTHELIUM;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RABBITS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; WAR;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 36749057907     PISSN: 17486041     EISSN: 1748605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/2/4/009     Document Type: Article

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