Full face transplant: The first case report

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 252-256

  Barret, Juan P ^a   Gavaldà, Joan ^a   Bueno, Javier ^a   Nuvials, Xavier ^a   Pont, Teresa ^a   Masnou, Nuria ^a   Colomina, Maria J ^a   Serracanta, Jordi ^a   Arno, Anna ^a   Huguet, Pere ^a   Collado, Jose M ^a   Salamero, Pere ^a   Moreno, Carlos ^a   Deulofeu, Roser ^a   Martínez Ibáñez, Vicenç ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CYST; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE DEFORMITY; FACE EDEMA; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORAL BIOPSY; ORO CUTANEOUS FISTULA; PAROTID SIALOCELE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ESTHETICS; FACIAL INJURIES; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SPAIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 79961093769     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318226a607     Document Type: Article

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