Achieving immune tolerance in hand and face transplantation: a realistic prospect?

Immunotherapy. 2014;6(5):499-502. doi: 10.2217/imt.14.29.

Authors

David A Leonard¹, Josef M Kurtz, Curtis L Cetrulo Jr

Affiliation

¹ Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 24896618
DOI: 10.2217/imt.14.29

No abstract available

Keywords: delayed induction of tolerance; mixed chimerism; translation; transplant tolerance; vascularized composite allotransplantation.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Facial Transplantation / methods*
Facial Transplantation / trends*
Humans
Immune Tolerance*
Portraits as Topic