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Airway reconstruction with carrier-free cell sheets composed of autologous nasal squamous epithelium.
The Laryngoscope - 1 Oct 2007
Koo Jaseok P, Kim Chang-Hoon, Lee Jeung-Gweon, Kim Kyung-Su, Yoon Joo-Heon
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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: Although skin has been the most effective graft material for reconstructing the airway lumen, the use of squamous epithelium has many problems. If autologous airway squamous epithelium could differentiate into mucociliary epithelium after in vivo grafting, it could be an answer to these problems. In this study, we wanted to examine whether carrier-free nasal epithelial cell sheets composed...
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