Jorge Morales Pedraza: The use of the ionization technique for tissue sterilisation: the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experience

摘要

The foundation of current tissue banking was set in place, essentially, by a relatively small number of tissue banks. Without entering into the debate about which actually was the first, we should recall the contributions of the Bethesda Naval Tissue Bank in the USA which George Hyatt founded in 1950 with Ken Sell becoming the Director on 1965. The impetus was the return of the war casualties from the Korean conflict who required reconstructive surgery. From this beginning came great contributions in the subject from Michael Strong and Gary Friedlander. The early publication ‘‘Tissue Banking for Transplantation’’ Sell and Friedlander (1976) Greene and Stratton, New York was truly a landmark publication.