Reconstruction of the mandible by means of a similar allogenic lyophilized mandibular segment II. Clinical application.
The clinical and radiological progress covering a period of 11 months is reported in a patient in whom a resected segment of the mandible was immediately replaced by an allogenic, lyophilized mandibular segment previously taken from a cadaver.
D000328:Adult; D001861:Bone Regeneration; D005260:Female; D005612:Freeze Drying; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000502:physiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous