Successful human vascular reconstructions with long-term refrigerated venous homografts

European Surgical Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-261

  Galambos, B ^a,b   Olah A ^a   Banga, P ^a   Csonge L ^c   Almasi J ^b   Acsady G ^d  

^a Vascular Surgery Unit   (Italy)

^b Petz Aladar Univ Teach Hosp 9024   (Hungary)

^c West Hungarian Regional Tissue Bank ^*

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Graft infection; Refrigerated storage; Venous allografts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRIGERATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VEINS;

EID: 70349488464     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000228728     Document Type: Article

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