| coimbra university hospitals' bone and tissue bank: twenty-two years of experience. | we report the microbiological contamination rate of sterilely procured 3953 tissue allografts obtained during 22 years of activity for musculoskeletal reconstruction from 1982 to 2003. from 1987 to 2000, allograft retrievals were performed in 191 cadaveric donors and in 323 living donors. in the former group 30 retrievals (15.7%) were excluded based on laboratory criteria. among living donors 108 femoral heads (33.4%) were also excluded by the same criteria. the microbiological contamination rat ... | 2005 | 16182813 |