A four-year pathology review of the near total face transplant

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2750-2764

  Bergfeld, W ^a   Klimczak, A ^a   Stratton, J S ^a   Siemionow, M Z ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

BANFF classification; face allotransplantation; histology; mucosa; rejection; skin

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13A; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHLORDANE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S 100; T6 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; APOPTOSIS; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY;

BANFF CLASSIFICATION; FACE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; MUCOSA; REJECTION; SKIN;

FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84884906939     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12379     Document Type: Review

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