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Original communication| Volume 37, ISSUE 4, P576-584, April 1955

An apparatus for the preparation of homologous arterial grafts by freeze-drying

  • H.B. Lehr
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    From the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA
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  • W.S. Blakemore
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    From the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA
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  • P.N. Sawyer
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    From the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA
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  • F. Glauser
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    From the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA
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  • J. Johnson
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    From the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ Trainee of National Heart Institute.
    ∗∗ Scholar of the American Cancer Society and I. S. Ravdin Traveling Fellow.
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