title: Achieving immune tolerance in hand and face transplantation: a realistic prospect?
authors.affiliation: Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: Josef M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kurtz
authors.forename: Curtis L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cetrulo
mesh_terms: D054445:Facial Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D011173:Portraits as Topic
keywords: delayed induction of tolerance; mixed chimerism; translation; transplant tolerance; vascularized composite allotransplantation