Composite tissue allotransplantation of the hand and face: a new frontier in transplant and reconstructive surgery
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Composite tissue allotransplantation of the hand and face: a new frontier in transplant and reconstructive surgery.
Each year an estimated 7-million people in the USA need composite tissue reconstruction because of surgical excision of tumors, accidents and congenital malformations. Limb amputees alone comprise over 1.2 million of these. This figure is more than double the number of solid organs needed for transplantation. Composite tissue allotransplantation in the form of hand and facial tissue transplanta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transplant International
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0934-0874,1432-2277
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00371.x