Journal of Pediatric Urology
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , February 2007

Autologous in vitro cultured urothelium in hypospadias repair☆

  • M. Fossum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Paediatric Surgery, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Q3:03, Astrid Lindgren Children Hospital, Karolinska Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 70 323 46 45; +47 8 517 777 12.
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  • J. Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Paediatric Surgery, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • G. Kratz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Linköping's University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
    • ,
  • A. Nordenskjöld

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Paediatric Surgery, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 31 October 2005 ,Accepted 26 January 2006.

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☆ Part of this work has been presented as an oral poster presentation at the ESPU international congress in Budapest 2002.

PII: S1477-5131(06)00029-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2006.01.018

Journal of Pediatric Urology
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , February 2007

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