Skin Graft Vascular Maturation and Remodeling: A Multifractal Approach to Morphological Quantification

Microcirculation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 652-663

  Gould, Daniel J ^a,b   Reece, Gregory P ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Microvascular morphology; Multifractal analysis; Split thickness skin graft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DENSITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN GRAFT;

ANIMALS; MICROCIRCULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 84867395019     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2012.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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