Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 213-221 , July 2011

Pathology of explanted polytetrafluoroethylene vascular grafts

  • Rupal I. Mehta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 10833 Le Conte Avenue, 18-126 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Tel.: +1 310 825 0544; fax: +1 310 206 8290.
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  • Arnob K. Mukherjee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • C-Link Micro Imaging, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA
    • ,
  • Tyler D. Patterson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • ,
  • Michael C. Fishbein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Received 14 December 2009 ,Revised 26 May 2010 ,Accepted 3 June 2010.

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 Disclosure of interest: the authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

 This work was supported through generous funds from the Oppenheimer Program Clinical Translational Seed Grant (R.I.M.), and the Piansky Family Trust (M.C.F.).

PII: S1054-8807(10)00077-3

doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2010.06.005

Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 213-221 , July 2011

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