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An artificial prosthesis to reconstruct donor defects following facial transplantation
Author(s) -
Renshaw Anthony,
Chooneea Teerathraj,
Clarke Alex,
Butler Peter E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1399-0012
pISSN - 0902-0063
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00674.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , prosthesis , facial reconstruction , surgery
Post‐harvest donor facial appearance is likely to have an impact on both the donor family and the transplant harvest team. We describe a method of fabricating a donor‐specific artificial prosthesis, which can be constructed within the time frame of the facial graft harvest.