1. A slowly reabsorbed, echogenic surgical thread provides a long-lasting ultrasound- detectable marker of grafted ovarian tissue 
Alberto Revelli, Gian Luigi Marchino, Francesca Salvagno, Eleonora Bianquin, Simona Casano, Maria Grazia Alemanno, Francesca Evangelista, Chiara Benedetto 
Reproductive BioMedicine Online 
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages (February 2014)
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2. Figure 1
(A) Small thawed fragments of ovarian cortical tissue are fastened together using a slowly absorbable, echogenic suture thread. (B) A small chain is formed.
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3. Figure 2
The suture thread keeps the ovarian tissue fragments fastened during their graft to the previously decorticated ovarian surface.
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4. Figure 3
(A) The echogenic suture thread (white arrow) remains clearly visible at transvaginal ultrasound examination until 6months after surgery, representing an easily detectable marker of the exact site at which the thawed tissue was grafted. (B) In the first weeks after grafting, the marker (white arrow) can be used to precisely localize the graft and study its neo-vascularization by colour Doppler.
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