History and evolution of the use of oral mucosa for urethral reconstruction/ Історія та еволюція застосування слизової рота для уретральної реконструкції
The first surgeon to use oral mucosa as urethral replacement was Kirill Sapezhko, a surgeon from Ukraine [3,4]. Kirill M. Sapezhko (1857-1928), before beginning to use oral mucosa in his patients, performed experimental studies on animals and described five sequential phases relating to changes in the transplanted oral mucosa: imbibition, inosculation, mucosa dimness, graft cleansing, and complete engraftment [4]. Sapezhko performed the first […]