A new composite midface allotransplantation model with sensory and motor reinnervation

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 649-656

  Zor, Fatih ^a   Bozkurt, Mehmet ^a   Nair, Dileep ^b   Siemionow, Maria ^a  

^a Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental CTA model; Functional recovery; Midface transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; CYCLOSPORIN;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISSECTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACE MALFORMATION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; INGUINAL REGION; LATENT PERIOD; LOWER LIP; MAXILLA; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MIDFACE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR NERVE REINNERVATION; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE REINNERVATION; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; FACE; INNERVATION; LEWIS RAT; PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGERY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FACE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; MAXILLA; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77951941720     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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