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Title Hand transplantation / Marco Lanzetta, Jean-Michel Dubernard (editors) ; Palmina Petruzzo (assistant editor)
Published Milan ; New York : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 493 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Historical remarks -- 2. Experimental limb transplantation -- 3. Ethics and medico-legal implications -- 4. Organization of hand transplantation -- 5. Surgical technique of hand transplantation -- 6. Immunology of hand transplantation -- 7. Immunosuppressive therapy -- 8. Limb rejection and monitoring -- 9. Functional recovery of transplanted hands -- 10. Psychological issues in hand transplantation -- 11. Other composite tissue transplant -- 12. Future directions
Summary Transplanting a limb has been a dream of humanity - until 1998 when an international team of surgeons gathered in Lyon, France, and performed the first hand transplantation in history. This book presents the global experimental and clinical experience on hand transplantation and all types of other composite tissue allografts
Analysis geneeskunde
medicine
volksgezondheid
public health
immunologie
immunology
plastische chirurgie
plastic surgery
herstel
rehabilitation
chirurgie
surgery
orthopedie
orthopaedics
transplantatie
transplantation
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Hand -- Transplantation
Graft rejection.
Hand.
Hand Transplantation
Hand
Graft Rejection
Hand
Graft rejection
Form Electronic book
Author Lanzetta, Marco.
Dubernard, Jean-Michel.
ISBN 9788847003743
8847003741
8847003733
9788847003736