Development of a Method for Scaffold-Free Elastic Cartilage Creation

Microtia is a congenital aplasia of the auricular cartilage. Conventionally, autologous costal cartilage grafts are collected and shaped for transplantation. However, in this method, excessive invasion occurs due to limitations in the costal cartilage collection. Due to deformation over time after t...

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Main Authors: Masahiro Enomura, Soichiro Murata, Yuri Terado, Maiko Tanaka, Shinji Kobayashi, Takayoshi Oba, Shintaro Kagimoto, Yuichiro Yabuki, Kenichi Morita, Toshimasa Uemura, Jiro Maegawa, Hideki Taniguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/22/8496