title: The fate of free autogenous fascial grafts in the rabbit.
abstract: Fascial grafts were taken from 34 New Zealand rabbits and implanted above and below the cranial periosteum in the same animal. They were placed as four-layered folded grafts and as single-layered grafts. When harvested from 6 to 14 months after transplantation, the multi-layered grafts and the single-layered grafts on bone had maintained their bulk but consisted histologically of only a retained collagen matrix with no viable cellular structure. The one-layered grafts on periosteum, however, retained their cellular make-up with normal vascularity and normal cellular structure when harvested at approximately the same intervals.
authors.affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Talbot
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000601:surgery; D005205:Fascia / Q000637:transplantation*; D005206:Fascia Lata / Q000166:cytology / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology; D008722:Methods; D010521:Periosteum / Q000601:surgery; D011817:Rabbits; D013997:Time Factors