Vascularized composite allotransplantation: An update on medical and surgical progress and remaining challenges

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1449-1455

  Murphy, Blake D ^a   Zuker, Ronald M ^a   Borschel, Gregory H ^a,b,c,d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composite tissue allotransplantation; Face transplant; Hand transplant; Limb transplant; Vascularized composite allotransplantation

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BURN; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPOSITE GRAFT; ELECTRIC BURN; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN NECROSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

COMPOSITE TISSUE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; FACE TRANSPLANT; HAND TRANSPLANT; LIMB TRANSPLANT; VASCULARIZED COMPOSITE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION;

FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; HAND TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84885435179     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2013.06.037     Document Type: Review

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