Cell-Seeded Acellular Artery for Reconstruction of Long Urethral Defects in a Canine Model

Figure 1

Surgical procedures of urethroplasty. A 3 cm long segment of the urethra (about 17% of the entire length of the urethra) starting distal to the bulbous urethra was transected and removed (a–c). The cell-seeded acellular arterial matrix was used to substitute the urethral defect (d).

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