Repairing critical-sized rat calvarial defects with a periosteal cell-seeded small intestinal submucosal layer


Keskin M., Kelly C. P., Moreira-Gonzalez A., Lobocki C., Yarim M., Kaplan S., ...More

PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, vol.122, no.2, pp.400-409, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

Background: Small intestinal submucosa was evaluated as a bioscaffold candidate for periosteum-derived osteoblasts, and its suitability as a bone replacement material for cranial defects was investigated.