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Limitations of the porcine model in post-total laryngectomy research
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Department of Surgery, Oncopole Claudius Regaud, University Cancer Institute of Toulouse – Oncopole, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, Occitanie,
France
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Département Hospitalo- Universitaire de Recherche et d’Enseignement (DHURE), Lille University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lille University, Lille, Hauts-de-France,
France
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Department of Surgery, Toulouse University Hospital, University Cancer Institute of Toulouse – Oncopole, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, Occitanie,
France
Submitted: 15 November 2025 | Revised: 26 March 2026 | Accepted: 31 March 2026 | Published: 12 May 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). Licensee Biomaterials Translational, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en)
Funding
The animal experiments referred to in this article were funded by the French National Research Agency (grant number ANR-20-CE19-0022).
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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