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Inching Ahead

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The history of transplants is one of vanity, disease and duels. Dr. Steve Carrel turns to a French seamstress to lay the foundation of vascular microsurgery. Cyclosporin allows transplant surgeons to confront the immune system.

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Siemionow, M. (2019). Inching Ahead. In: Face to Face. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06055-8_1

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