Editorial: Face transplantation

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 863-864

  Morrison, Wayne ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BURN; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COST; DONOR SELECTION; EDITORIAL; FACE DEFORMITY; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIMB; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; REIMPLANTATION; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; ETHICS; STANDARD;

FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS;

EID: 72349084721     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05133.x     Document Type: Editorial

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