Functional outcome after facial allograft transplantation in rats

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1034-1043

  Landin, Luis ^a   Cavadas, Pedro C ^a   Gonzalez, Emilio ^a   Rodriguez, Jose C ^b   Caballero, Araceli ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Composite tissue allotransplantation; Face transplant; Facial allograft transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE SURGERY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; FACE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 50349084860     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.12.084     Document Type: Article

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