[Free jejunum graft as substitute of the cervical esophagus done with microsurgical technic--morphological and functional results in long-term studies]
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Small Bowel Transplantation In Mice
Published on: August 19, 2007
Chirurgisches Forum Fur Experimentelle Und Klinische Forschung
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
It is possible to undertake a free transplantation of the jejunum with a low rate of thrombosis by a microsurgical technique of vascular anastomosis. The animals could be nourished sufficiently via the interponate with pasty food. Peristalsis within the interponate was retained. Stenoses caused by a periluminar cicatrix are possible. After 1 year a transformation of connective tissue of the interponate was not observed.
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