Implications of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation in Plastic Surgery on Legal Medicine

Implications of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation in Plastic Surgery on Legal Medicine

Background: When a patient receives a transplant—be it classically an organ or bone marrow or, more recently, composite allotransplantations of the limb or face—it can result in artificial chimerism. Such chimerism raises considerations in forensic medicine, a field that relies on the collection and...

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Main Authors: Valentin Haug, Adriana C. Panayi, Samuel Knoedler, Sina Foroutanjazi, Martin Kauke-Navarro, Sebastian Fischer, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Yannick Diehm, Ulrich Kneser, Bohdan Pomahac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
vascularized composite allotransplantation
facial recognition
biometrics
DNA
chimerism
fingerprint identification
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/6/2308

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