ORGANIZATION OF A BONE AND TISSUE-BANK

The regional bone bank offers a good foundament for covering the expan ding clinical demands in tumor and revision surgery. Since 1980 the ti ssue bank of Munster consists of 32 cadaveric and 41 multi organ donor s. In the guidelines of the tissue bank the responsibility, organisati on form, donor selection, quality control, sterilisation, documentatio n and all questions of finances are fixed, in accordance to the Americ an Association of Tissue Banks. A fixed staff will be helpful to offer a secure and not expensive donor tissue for the clinical demands.