Chronic or non-healing lower extremity ulcerations in diabetics are a significant cause of
morbidity and mortality, and account for a large proportion of the financial burden related to …

Clinical flap prefabrication can be classified according to the basic technique of plastic
surgery used for the prefabrication. There are currently three methods:(1) delay or …

The localized and temporally controlled delivery of growth factors is key to achieving optimal
clinical efficacy. In sophisticated tissue engineering strategies, the biodegradable scaffold is …

A major requirement for the microsurgical repair of contour defects of the skin, for example,
following removal of a skin cancer on the face, is a mass of vascularised subcutaneous …

Cartilage is often used as structural support tissue for cosmetic repair in plastic and
reconstructive surgery. We describe the efficacy of a new approach for the generation of …

This study was designed to clarify which vascular carrier, the arteriovenous shunt loop or the
arteriovenous bundle, has more potential as a vascular carrier for an artificial skin flap in …

The authors previously described a model of tissue engineering in rats that involves the
insertion of a vascular pedicle and matrix material into a semirigid closed chamber, which is …

De novo tissue generation stimulated by three angiogenic growth factors administered in a
factorial design was studied in an in vivo murine tissue engineering chamber. A silicone …

Less than 1 percent of the women interested in having larger breasts elect to have surgical
augmentation mammaplasty with insertion of breast implants. The purpose of this report is to …

The present experiment was designed to investigate the possibility of prefabricating a tissue
flap in a rat by combining an arteriovenous (AV) shunt loop with artificial skin dermis (AS) …