Word: autograft
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Once created, an autograft can be kept frozen and used to generate more sheets of skin whenever needed. For these patients, who may have a limited amount of skin from which to proceed with split skin grafting, autografting may be the only way to heal skin wounds...
From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...
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