Serious nerve injuries occur in 5% of all traumas. In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery" discusses a new way that plastic surgeons can help treat and heal nerve injuries with stem cells.
Read the August 2018 PRS #PlasticSurgery article, "A Simple Dynamic Strategy to Deliver Stem Cells to Decellularized Nerve Allografts" by Rbia, Bulstra, Bishop, et al.
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Keywords: plastic surgery; #PRSHotTopic; nerve allograft; nerve damage; nerve surgery; stem cells; mesenchymal stromal cells; cells; research; experimental; nerve tissue; cell survival; bioreactor; nerves; stromal cells;
