THE FATE OF IMPLANTED BIOBRIDGE™ COLLAGEN MATRIX – FINDINGS IN HISTOLOGY, SCANNING, AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

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The technique of lymphangioplasty or capillary thread drainage was historically performed with subcutaneously implanted surgical threads. It has recently been revived by introducing a thread-like aligned nanofibrillar collagen matrix (BioBridge™). These collagen threads constitute subcutaneous neocollectors along which guided lymphangiogenesis is said to occur secondarily. We present for the first time a tissue examination of a 10-month implanted BioBridge™ sample with surrounding tissue from a human subject by histology, scanning and transmission electron microscopy.