Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 39-47 , July 2010

Esophageal replacement by allogenic aorta in a porcine model

  • Sebastien Gaujoux, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Université Paris 7, Paris, France
    • Ecole de Chirurgie, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Yann Le Balleur, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Université René Descartes, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Patrick Bruneval, MD

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris 7, Paris, France
    • Department of Pathology, Hôpital Europeen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Inserm U872, Centre de Recherches des Cordeliers, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Jerome Larghero, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cell Therapy Unit, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Inserm U 718, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Université Paris 7, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Séverine Lecourt

      Affiliations

    • Cell Therapy Unit, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Thomas Domet

      Affiliations

    • Cell Therapy Unit, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Benoit Lambert, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Sarah Zohar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Inserm CIC 9504, Clinical Research Center, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Inserm U717, Biostatistics Department, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Frederic Prat, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Université René Descartes, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Pierre Cattan, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Ecole de Chirurgie, AP-HP, Paris, France
    • Inserm U970, Centre de Recherches Cardiovasculaires de l'Hôpital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Pierre Cattan, MD, PhD, Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Saint Louis, 1 Avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.

,Accepted 4 December 2009.

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 Funded by the Association Française de l'Atrésie de l'Oesophage, the Association pour le Traitement et la Recherche en Hépatogastroentérologie, Cancérologie et Chirurgie digestive, and the Hôpital Saint-Louis (APHP), Paris, France. S.G. received a fellowship from the Fond d'Etude et de Recherche du Corps Medical APHP.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00790-9

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.12.002

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