Allotransplantation or autotransplantation to the face, which first?

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-3

  Mommaerts, Maurice ^a   Abeloos, Johan S V ^a  

^a General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR;

ALLOGRAFT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAROTID ARTERY; EYELID; FACE BURN; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHRENIC NERVE; PLASMAPHERESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL RISK; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

DECISION MAKING; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 74449090313     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2009.10.026     Document Type: Letter

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