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Vein Interposition Model: A Suitable Model to Study Bypass Graft Patency
Published on: January 15, 2017
Use of spiral vein graft in living donor renal transplantation
1Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA. dnghiem@wpahs.org
Clinical Transplantation
|August 5, 2008
Abstract:
Prosthetic material or vascular homografts have been used for vascular reconstruction in organ transplants. An alternative procedure using the spiral saphenous vein graft to lengthen 19 short-living donor kidney vessels is described.
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