Preclinical assessment of resorbable silk splints for the treatment of pediatric tracheomalacia.
McGill M, Raol N, Gipson KS, Bowe SN, Fulk-Logan J, Nourmahnad A, Chung JY, Whalen MJ, Kaplan DL, Hartnick CJ.
McGill M, et al.
Laryngoscope. 2019 Sep;129(9):2189-2194. doi: 10.1002/lary.27540. Epub 2018 Nov 8.
Laryngoscope. 2019.
PMID: 30408198
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METHODS: Silk splints were evaluated in a surgically induced model of severe tracheomalacia in N = 3 New Zealand white rabbits for 17, 24, and 31 days. An image-based assay was developed to quantify the dynamic change in airway area during spontaneous respiration, and hist …
METHODS: Silk splints were evaluated in a surgically induced model of severe tracheomalacia in N = 3 New Zealand white rabbits for 17 …