Generation and transplantation of an autologous vascularized bioartificial human tissue (2009)
Mertsching, H., Schanz, J., Steger, V., Schandar, M., Schenk, M., Hansmann, J., ...
Background. The lack of transplant vascularization forecloses the generation and clinical implementation of bioartificial tissues. We developed techniques to generate a bioartificial human tissue...
Clinical tracheal replacement: transplantation, bioprostheses and artificial grafts (2008)
Steger, V., Hampel, M., Trick, I., Müller, M., Walles, T.
The replacement of significant lengths of tracheal tissue still remains the unrivalled 'holy grail' of thoracic: surgery. As a result of continuous developments and improvements in tracheal surgery...