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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1208
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Bioengineered airway tissue

Hermes C. Grillo, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

In the brief communication "First Human Transplantation of a Bioengineered Airway Tissue," Macchiarini and associates1 point out that tracheal replacement by tissue engineering seems to hold potential. Question is to be raised whether this report actually does provide "definitive evidence that a tissue engineered patch...can functionally...fill all requirements for an airway patch."

The patch was applied to a defect 1.5 . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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