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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:949
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

INVITED COMMENTARY

Hermes Grillo, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Blake 1570, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114

(E-mail: pguerriero@partners.org).

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Martinod and associates "report for the first time here that allogenic aortic segments implanted in the tracheal environment after extensive tracheal resection were replaced after a few months by a new trachea comprising mucociliary epithelium, cartilage rings and a posterior membrane [italics added]." They postulate that "the environment plays a major role to induce tissue transformation leading toward a structure as complex as a trachea with cartilage rings and posterior membrane." If confirmed, this work would be very important, and a wholly new biological process will . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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