Secondary surgery for functional improvement after hand transplantation

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 421-422

  Cavadas, Pedro C ^a   Ibañez, Javier ^a   Thione, Alessandro ^a  

^a Clinica Cavadas   (Spain)

Author keywords

acute rejection; functional result; hand transplantation; secondary surgery; vascularized composite allotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 80052966149     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31822e5c4a     Document Type: Article

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