Fabrication of a neotrachea using engineered cartilage

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 593-598

  Weidenbecher, Mark ^a   Tucker, Harvey M ^b   Awadallah, Amad ^a   Dennis, James E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage tissue engineering; Engineered trachea; Scaffold free cartilage; Tracheal reconstruction; Tracheal substitute

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; EAR CARTILAGE; EPITHELIUM; IMPLANT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STENT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRACHEA;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHONDROCYTES; EAR CARTILAGE; ELASTICITY; EPITHELIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MALE; PLIABILITY; RABBITS; SILICONES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STENTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRACHEA;

EID: 41849110591     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318161f9f8     Document Type: Article

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