Alexis Carrel: Genius, innovator and ideologist

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1998-2003

  Dutkowski, P ^a   De Rougemont, O ^a   Clavien, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DCD; Immortality; Machine perfusion; Nobel Prize; Preservation; Vascular anastomosis

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; HEART DEATH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ORGAN PERFUSION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SURGEON; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 51849136896     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02364.x     Document Type: Review

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