Urethral replacement: A comparison between small intestinal submucosa grafts and spontaneous regeneration

BJU International

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1132-1135

  El Assmy, Ahmed ^a   El Hamid, Mohamed Abd ^a   Hafez, Ashraf T ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Graft; Regeneration; Small intestinal submucosa; Urethra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE GRAFT; MALE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ONLAY GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETROGRADE URETHROGRAPHY; SCAR; SMALL INTESTINE SUBMUCOSA GRAFT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPONTANEOUS REGENERATION; STENT; SUBMUCOSA; TISSUE REGENERATION; TUBE; URETHRA DEFECT; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA INJURY; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; RABBITS; REGENERATION; URETHRA;

EID: 9644291498     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2004.05115.x     Document Type: Article

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