Current Safety Sterilization and Tissue Banking Issues for Soft Tissue Allografts

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-189

  Vangsness Jr , C Thomas ^a   Dellamaggiora, Ryan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allograft; Graft; Processing; Safety; Tissue bank

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STERILIZATION; TISSUE BANKS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62549104856     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2008.10.008     Document Type: Review

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