Edward J. Caterson, MD

Plastic Surgery

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Other Offices

Get to Know Me

Dr. Caterson works with Nemours, so he can provide personalized care at the highest level of excellence and pursue the highest level of care for his patients. 

Why I Treat Children

I work with children due to having a child of my own with a congenital facial difference. This inspired my career and the work that I continue to do. 

What I'm Passionate About

I’m passionate about achieving excellence in all my results, specifically in work with the cleft lip and palate. 

How I Try to Make A Difference

I make a difference by working with my patients and their families through an acute crisis of a medical intervention from start to finish. I believe it is important to do so with precision and efficiency, as well as treating each child as if they are my own.

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Craniofacial Surgery - New York University School of Medicine, 2010

Residency

  • Plastic Surgery - Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical Sch., 2009

Medical/Dental School

  • M.D. - Thomas Jefferson University - Medical College, 2003

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Plastic Surgery

Awards & Recognition

  • 2022 Top Doctors, Philadelphia Magazine

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
  • Aetna Better Health of Maryland Medicaid
  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware VIP Next (DE - All Sites) (PA - Delaware & Chester County Sites & TJU Sites Only)
  • Carefirst MD Community Health Plan Mcaid
  • Celtic Transplant Network for Ambetter
  • Celtic Transplant Network for Centene
  • Celtic Transplant Network for Delaware First Health
  • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS/EPO
  • Cigna & Great West PPO
  • Cigna Lifesource Transplant
  • Cigna PPO/EPO/HMO/POS/OPEN ACCESS
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Community Care Plan Medicaid
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Delaware Medicare
  • Emerging Therapies Transplant
  • Employers Health Network PPO
  • Evolutions Healthcare
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Florida Medicaid
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Health First Health Plans
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • HealthSmart Health Plans PPO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc Contiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc NONContiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options - Delaware & Chester CTY & TJU Sites ONLY
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Interlink Transplant
  • Keystone First CHIP
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Molina Healthcare Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • National Transplant (Humana)
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO NJ
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO ORL
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Priority Partners John Hopkins
  • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Redion/GMMI DE/PA
  • Seminole Tribe of Florida
  • Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
  • Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
  • Six Degrees Health-Lucent
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
  • Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare Commercial Products
  • United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid
  • United Healthcare HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
  • UPMC Medicaid/CHIP
  • US Family Health Plan
  • USFHP-John Hopkins
  • Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

  • Cleft and Craniofacial Anomalies
  • Maxillofacial Surgery

Research Activities

  • Basic science research in wound healing and tissue engineering
  • Health service research activity — surgery and public health

Medical Interests

  • Craniofacial surgery
  • Burn surgery
  • Reconstructive surgery of the face

  • Factors associated with late surgical correction of craniosynostosis: A decade-long review of the United States nationwide readmission database; Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery; (2024).

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  • Advances in Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery; Medicina (Lithuania); (2023).

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  • Incidence and Epidemiology of Traumatic Tympanic Membrane Rupture: A National Trauma Data Bank Analysis; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2023).

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  • Increased Incidence of Suspected Smoke Inhalation During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A National Database Study; Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association; (2023).

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  • Highlights on Advancing Frontiers in Tissue Engineering; Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews; (2022).

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  • Novel Smartphone Based Free Flap Monitoring Tool Using Machine Learning; bioRxiv; (2022).

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  • Pandemic Puppies: Man's Best Friend or Public Health Problem? A Multidatabase Study; Journal of Surgical Research; (2022).

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  • Treatment of Sagittal Craniosynostosis Using Osteoplastic Parietal Craniotomy Flap With Distraction Osteogenesis: A Variation on Technique; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2022).

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  • A Yorkshire swine (Sus scrofa domesticus) model for nerve regeneration and ischemia based on the sciatic nerve and femoral artery; Annals of Anatomy; (2021).

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  • Advances in biomedical applications of self-healing hydrogels; Materials Chemistry Frontiers; (2021).

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  • Long-Term Functional Outcomes of Trauma Patients With Facial Injuries; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2021).

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  • Self-Healing Biomaterials to Heal Tissues; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2021).

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  • Three-Dimensional Bioprinting, Oxygenated Tissue Constructs, and Intravital Tissue Regeneration; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2021).

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  • Anti-human Leukocyte Antigen Immune Sensitization Effects of Cryopreserved Allograft and Blood Transfusion; Journal of Burn Care and Research; (2020).

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  • Bleeding Control Training for the Lay Public: Keep it Simple-Reply; JAMA Surgery; (2020).

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  • Defining a Research Agenda for Layperson Prehospital Hemorrhage Control: A Consensus Statement; JAMA Network Open; (2020).

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  • Reconstructive Plastic Surgery for Blast and Burn Injuries; Operational and Medical Management of Explosive and Blast Incidents; (2020).

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  • Traumatic Brain Injury in Trauma Patients With Isolated Facial Fractures; The Journal of craniofacial surgery; (2020).

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  • "Stop the Bleed": A U.S. Military Installation's Model for Implementation of a Rapid Hemorrhage Control Program; Military Medicine; (2019).

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  • Association of Vessel-Sealant Devices vs Conventional Hemostasis with Postoperative Neck Hematoma after Thyroid Operations; JAMA Surgery; (2019).

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  • Building community resilience: A scalable model for hemorrhage-control training at a mass gathering site, using the RE-AIM framework; Surgery (United States); (2019).

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  • Can they stop the bleed? Evaluation of tourniquet application by individuals with varying levels of prior self-reported training; Injury; (2019).

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  • Delayed haemothorax and fracture of titanium plate rib fixation following oncologic chest wall reconstruction; ANZ Journal of Surgery; (2019).

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  • Effectiveness of the American College of Surgeons Bleeding Control Basic Training among Laypeople Applying Different Tourniquet Types: A Randomized Clinical Trial; JAMA Surgery; (2019).

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  • Hemorrhage Control Training Promotes Resilience-Associated Traits in Medical Students; Journal of Surgical Education; (2019).

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  • Effectiveness of instructional interventions for hemorrhage control readiness for laypersons in the public access and tourniquet training study (PATTS) a randomized clinical trial; JAMA Surgery; (2018).

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  • Face transplant: Status of current supporting technology to plan and perform the operation and monitor the graft in the postoperative period; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2018).

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  • Trismus in face transplantation following ballistic trauma; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2018).

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  • Bilateral Free Flap Breast Reconstruction Outcomes: Do Abdominal Scars Affect Bilateral Flaps?; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2017).

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  • Management of rhinophyma: Outcomes study of the subunit method; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2017).

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  • The Second-Generation Craniofacial Surgeon: Progress Through Personal Responsibility and Personal Relationships; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2017).

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  • A Retrospective Analysis of Secondary Revisions after Face Transplantation: Assessment of Outcomes, Safety, and Feasibility; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2016).

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  • Alloderm covering over titanium cranioplasty may minimize contour deformities in the frontal bone position; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2016).

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  • Allotransplantation of the eye: Context and possible considerations for a future guided by anatomy; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2016).

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  • Cdc42 and p190RhoGAP activation by CCN2 regulates cell spreading and polarity and induces actin disassembly in migrating keratinocytes; International wound journal; (2016).

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  • Commentary on: Microscopic transnasal approach: A new technique for the reconstruction of frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocele; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2016).

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  • Extracellular Matrix and Dermal Fibroblast Function in the Healing Wound; Advances in Wound Care; (2016).

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  • Full-thickness porcine burns infected with Staphylococcus aureus or Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be effectively treated with topical antibiotics; Wound Repair and Regeneration; (2016).

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  • Global patterns of QALY and DALY use in surgical cost-utility analyses: A systematic review; PLoS ONE; (2016).

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  • Inequalities in Specialist Hand Surgeon Distribution across the United States; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2016).

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  • Innervated free gracilis muscle transfer: An experimental model; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2016).

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  • Ocular Reconstruction Using Bone-Anchored Implants in Irradiated Facial Deformities After Tumor Extirpation; The Journal of craniofacial surgery; (2016).

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  • Osteocutaneous second-toe free flap as alternative option for repair of anterior oronasal fistula: Long-term results in selected patients; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2016).

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  • Pixel grafting: An evolution of mincing for transplantation of full-thickness wounds; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2016).

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  • The subunit method: A novel excisional approach for rhinophyma; Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology; (2016).

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  • Titanium wound chambers for wound healing research; Wound Repair and Regeneration; (2016).

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  • Topical Minocycline Effectively Decontaminates and Reduces Inflammation in Infected Porcine Wounds; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2016).

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  • "countersinking" of reservoir in an irradiated patients can decrease tension on scalp closure; Surgical Neurology International; (2015).

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  • A Tribute to the Founding Figures of the American Board of Plastic Surgery; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2015).

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  • Causal relation between nerve compression and migraine symptoms and the therapeutic role of surgical decompression; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2015).

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  • Challenging the Conventional Therapy: Emerging Skin Graft Techniques for Wound Healing; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2015).

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  • Cost analysis of conventional face reconstruction versus face transplantation for large tissue defects; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2015).

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  • Craniofacial measurements of donors and recipients correlate with aesthetic outcome in virtual face transplantation; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2015).

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  • Deep temporal fascia coverage of the loading weight in paralytic lagopthalmos patients; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Intraoperative development of tension pneumocephalus in a patient undergoing repair of a cranial-dural defect under nitrous oxide anesthesia; Journal of Surgical Technique and Case Report; (2015).

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  • Malignant eccrine spiradenoma of the face; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Measuring and comparing the cost-effectiveness of surgical care delivery in low-resource settings: Cleft lip and palate as a model; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Medical 3D printing for the radiologist; Radiographics; (2015).

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  • Reconstruction of rare skull metastases using free latissimus dorsi flap and the role of preoperative embolization in hypervascular skull tumors; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Saved by de-epithelialization: DIEP flap dermal skin regeneration salvage after mastectomy skin flap loss; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2015).

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  • Shared education and shared innovation in the global health setting; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Skin excision as an adjunctive technique to rhinoplasty in middle-aged and elderly patients; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2015).

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  • The external microenvironment of healing skin wounds; Wound Repair and Regeneration; (2015).

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  • The medial femoral condyle free osteocutaneous flap for osteomyelitis in pilon fractures; Injury; (2015).

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  • Topical delivery of ultrahigh concentrations of gentamicin is highly effective in reducing bacterial levels in infected porcine full-thickness wounds; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2015).

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  • Use of intraoperative computed tomography for revisional procedures in patients with complex maxillofacial trauma; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open; (2015).

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  • Use of Osteocutaneous second-Toe free flap for anterior Oronasal fistulas; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2015).

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  • Use of Pedicled Trapezius Myocutaneous Flap for Posterior Skull Reconstruction; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2015).

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  • Airway recovery after face transplantation; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2014).

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  • Assessing quality of healing in skin: review of available methods and devices; Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society; (2014).

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  • Current preventive measures for health-care associated surgical site infections: A review; Patient Safety in Surgery; (2014).

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  • Future directions for face transplantation; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • India: reverse innovation and the dichotomy of medical resources; The Journal of craniofacial surgery; (2014).

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  • Management of subcondylar mandible fractures in the adult patient; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • Moist dressing coverage supports proliferation and migration of transplanted skin micrografts in full-thickness porcine wounds; Burns; (2014).

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  • Principles and practice of mandibular distraction osteogenesis; Handbook of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • Providing more than health care: The dynamics of humanitarian surgery efforts on the local microeconomy; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • Quality of healing: defining, quantifying, and enhancing skeletal muscle healing; Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society; (2014).

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  • The advent of the restorative plastic surgeon; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2014).

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  • Transillumination of the occult submucous cleft palate; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • Vascularized treatment options for reconstruction of the ascending mandible with introduction of the femoral medial epicondyle free flap; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2014).

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  • Antibiotic selection for open reduction internal fixation of mandible fractures; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Boston bombings: A surgical view of lessons learned from combat casualty care and the applicability to Boston's terrorist attack; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • CCN2 is transiently expressed by keratinocytes during re-epithelialization and regulates keratinocyte migration in vitro by the ras-MEK-ERK signaling pathway; Journal of Surgical Research; (2013).

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  • CCN2 promotes keratinocyte adhesion and migration via integrin α5β1; Experimental Cell Research; (2013).

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  • Characterization of skin allograft use in thermal injury; Journal of Burn Care and Research; (2013).

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  • Conversation in humility; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Evolution and limitations of conventional autologous reconstruction of the head and neck; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Facial appearance transfer and persistence after three-dimensional virtual face transplantation; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2013).

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  • Ischemia-reperfusion injury in vascularized composite allotransplantation; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Soft-tissue profile changes following early le fort iii distraction in growing children with syndromic craniosynostosis; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2013).

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  • Surgical management of patients with a history of early le fort iii advancement after they have attained skeletal maturity; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2013).

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  • The microenvironment of wound healing; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • The nobler angels of our nature: a tribute to Joseph E. Murray, M.D., 1919 to 2012.; Plastic and reconstructive surgery; (2013).

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  • Tissue engineering of skin; Journal of the American College of Surgeons; (2013).

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  • Use of high-frequency ultrasound guidance for intraoperative zygomatic arch fracture reduction; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Vascularized composite allotransplantation and tissue engineering; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2013).

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  • Why we are here: Early reflections on the role of reconstructive plastic surgery in the 2013 Boston marathon bombings; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2013).

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  • Craniofacial principles in face transplantation; Journal of Craniofacial Surgery; (2012).

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  • Epidermal regeneration by micrograft transplantation with immediate 100-fold expansion; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2012).

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  • Three patients with full facial transplantation; New England Journal of Medicine; (2012).

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  • Comparison of healing parameters in porcine full-thickness wounds transplanted with skin micrografts, split-thickness skin grafts, and cultured keratinocytes; Journal of the American College of Surgeons; (2011).

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  • Regeneration in medicine: A plastic surgeons "tail" of disease, stem cells, and a possible future; Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews; (2008).

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  • TGF-β1 calcium signaling in osteoblasts; Journal of Cellular Biochemistry; (2007).

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  • Transient differentiation of adult human bone marrow cells into neuron-like cells in culture: Development of morphological and biochemical traits is mediated by different molecular mechanisms; Stem Cells and Development; (2004).

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  • Treatment of mandibular angle fractures with a matrix miniplate: A preliminary report; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; (2004).

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  • Electrospun nanofibrous structure: A novel scaffold for tissue engineering; Journal of Biomedical Materials Research; (2002).

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  • Human marrow-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells: Isolation, culture expansion, and analysis of differentiation; Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Part B Molecular Biotechnology; (2002).

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  • Multilineage differentiation of adult human bone marrow progenitor cells transduced with human papilloma virus type 16 E6/E7 genes; Calcified Tissue International; (2002).

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  • Polymer/alginate amalgam for cartilage-tissue engineering; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; (2002).

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  • TGF-β1 calcium signaling increases α5 integrin expression in osteoblasts; Journal of Orthopaedic Research; (2002).

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  • TGF-β1-stimulated osteoblasts require intracellular calcium signaling for enhanced α5 integrin expression; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; (2002).

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  • Application of mesenchymal stem cells in the regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues.; MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine; (2001).

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  • Three-dimensional cartilage formation by bone marrow-derived cells seeded in polylactide/alginate amalgam; Journal of Biomedical Materials Research; (2001).

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