Increasing the incidence and the size of successful experimental composite ear grafts by advance preparation of the recipient bed.
Composite grafts were transferred from one ear to the other in adult macaque monkeys. Evidence was found that preparation of the recipient bed (cutting a wedge-shaped hole from the rim inward, 10 or 11 days ahead of transfer) would increase the incidence of complete takes and would also increase the size of grafts that could be transferred successfully.
D000818:Animals; D004431:Ear, External / Q000601:surgery*; D006085:Graft Survival; D000882:Haplorhini; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous