Capsule thickness correlates with vascular density and blood flow within foreign-body capsules surrounding surgically implanted subcutaneous devices

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 857-861

  Bartoli, Carlo R ^a,b   Nadar, Menaka M ^a   Godleski, John J ^b,c  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Foreign body capsule; Foreign body response; Histomorphometry; Microspheres; Subcutaneous; Surgical device; Vascular access port; Vascular density

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MICROSPHERES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILICONES; TISSUE; TITANIUM;

ACCESS PORTS; BLOOD FLOW; FOREIGN BODY CAPSULES; FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE; HISTOMORPHOMETRY; SUBCUTANEOUS; SURGICAL DEVICES; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR ACCESS PORT; VASCULAR DENSITY;

ANIMALS;

MICROSPHERE; POLYSULFONE; SILICONE; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY CAPSULE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77958601923     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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