Long-term outcomes of composite auricle as a neurosensorial facial subunit allotransplant

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-316

  Ulusal, Betul Gozel ^a,b   Ulusal, Ali Engin ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Allotransplantation; Auricle; Composite tissue

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PARACETAMOL; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AURICLE TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EAR SURGERY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOTRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CONVALESCENCE; EXTERNAL EAR; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNERVATION; LEWIS RAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; EAR AURICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349161470     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31817e9cd3     Document Type: Article

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