Sentence examples for tissue transfers from inspiring English sources

In autologous tissue transfers, muscle, skin or fat from another part of the patient's body substitutes for an implant.

"I'm baffled, absolutely baffled," says virologist Jonathan Allan of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, that the proposals don't specifically ban nonhuman primate tissue transfers.

[2] showed that venous insufficiency was more frequent than arterial insufficiency: in a total of 404 free tissue transfers in the lower extremity, 26 flaps suffered from venous insufficiency and 21 arterial.

However, the limited availability of orthoplastic teams necessary to perform definite flaps or tissue transfers at the initial surgical setting results in a delay in soft tissue cover and increased post-operative infection rates [7].

In these complex wounds it is not uncommon for the metalwork to be covered primarily or with vascularised tissue transfers, while more distant portions of the same wound remain open, with topical negative pressure dressings in place.

Patient perspectives on the treatment options for maxillary defects, which include free tissue transfers or obturator prostheses, may help eliminate current uncertainty as to the best choice of treatment plan.

I recently operated on a chap with cancer in his lower jaw, carrying out a free tissue transfer.

More plastic surgeons are familiar with implants, and the procedure is less expensive than tissue transfer.

Recurring cancers can be somewhat easier to detect in breasts reconstructed with implants than with tissue transfer, she noted.

Requirement for vascularised tissue transfer (both local and free flaps).

It is also used for bone and soft tissue transfer.