First Polish forearm transplantation - Final report (outcome after 4 years)

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 61-67

  Jabłecki, Jerzy ^a   Kaczmarzyk, Leszek ^a   Domanasiewicz, Adam ^a   Chełmoński, Adam ^a   Boratyńska, Maria ^b   Patrzałek, Dariusz ^b  

^a Subdepartment of Replantation of Limbs   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allograft; Forearm transplantation; Immunosupression; Transplantation outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOREARM; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARM; FOREARM INJURIES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; PROCEDURES; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARM; FOREARM; FOREARM INJURIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLAND; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954631907     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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