The Innsbruck Hand Transplant Program: Update at 8 Years After the First Transplant

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 491-494

  Brandacher, G ^a   Ninkovic, M ^a,b   Piza Katzer, H ^a   Gabl, M ^a   Hussl, H ^a   Rieger, M ^a   Schocke, M ^a   Egger, K ^a   Loescher, W ^a   Zelger, B ^a,b,c   Bonatti, H ^c   Boesmueller, C ^a   Mark, W ^a   Margreiter, R ^a   Schneeberger, S ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; BASILIXIMAB; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND FUNCTION; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HAND TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ARM; ARTERIES; AUSTRIA; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWSPAPERS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 63149196190     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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