Dr. Joseph Philip Vacanti MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
55 Fruit St Wrn 1157 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Joseph Vacanti practices Pediatric Surgery in Boston, MA. Dr. Vacanti treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Vacantidiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Small intestinal submucosa as a small-caliber venous graft: a novel model for hepatocyte transplantation on synthetic biodegradable polymer scaffolds with direct access to the portal venous system.
- Regenerative signals for intestinal epithelial organoid units transplanted on biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering of small intestine.
- Successful anastomosis between tissue-engineered intestine and native small bowel.
- Long-term results in pediatric ABO-incompatible liver transplantation.
- Regenerative signals for tissue-engineered small intestine.
- Anastomosis between tissue-engineered intestine and native small bowel.
- Formation of phalanges and small joints by tissue-engineering.
- Tissue engineering: the challenges ahead.
- Tissue engineering: the design and fabrication of living replacement devices for surgical reconstruction and transplantation.
- Evaluation of methods of hepatotrophic stimulation in rat heterotopic hepatocyte transplantation using polymers.
- The current status of tissue engineering as potential therapy.
- End-to-end anastomosis between tissue-engineered intestine and native small bowel.
- Effects of anastomosis of tissue-engineered neointestine to native small bowel.
- Tissue engineering: toward new solutions for transplantation and reconstructive surgery.
- Tissue engineering of a trileaflet heart valve-early in vitro experiences with a combined polymer.
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