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Editorial
. 2021 Apr 20:6:157-158.
doi: 10.1016/j.xjon.2021.03.024. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Commentary: The road less traveled! Do silk fibroin vascular grafts have a role in small vessel revascularization?

Victor A Ferraris  1
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Editorial

Commentary: The road less traveled! Do silk fibroin vascular grafts have a role in small vessel revascularization?

Victor A Ferraris. JTCVS Open. .
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Products from silkworms may provide vascular grafts to allow small vessel revascularization.
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Products from silkworms may provide vascular grafts to allow small vessel revascularization.
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  • doi: 10.1016/j.xjon.2021.02.008

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