An artificial prosthesis to reconstruct donor defects following facial transplantation.
Post-harvest donor facial appearance is likely to have an impact on both the donor family and the transplant harvest team. We describe a method of fabricating a donor-specific artificial prosthesis, which can be constructed within the time frame of the facial graft harvest.
Renshaw
Anthony
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Department of Plastic Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. anthony_renshaw@yahoo.co.uk
Chooneea
Teerathraj
T
Clarke
Alex
A
Butler
Peter E
PE
D002370:Casts, Surgical; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D019737:Transplants