Abstract:

BACKGROUND: With the development of tissue transplantation and preservation technology, allograft tissue bank has been widely developed and its technical level has improved constantly. Meanwhile, the synergism of involved standards and governing principles are becoming increasingly prominent, and the quality control attracts more and more attention.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the establishment and application of tissue bank based on the experiences of scientific research, clinical medicine, and management about allograft tissue bank over the past 25 years.
METHODS: The literature related to establishment and management, quality standard and control of allograft tissue bank from Medline database (1966/2010), Excerpta Medica database (1974/2010), Chinese Scientific and Technical Literature database 1999/1999), and Chinese Biomedical Literature database (1978/2009) was retrieved by the second and the third author.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Allograft tissue bank plays an important role in clinical treatment and provides an effective and convenient approach for doctors. The establishment and application of allograft tissue bank constitute a comprehensive and particular medical field, which possesses its own management mode and quality control system. A complete process management involved in a tissue bank should includes the setting and management mode, operational process of technology, and quality control system. Tissue bank should regulate operation, and included into areas of scientific management of medical institution, in order to make allograft tissue bank assist Chinese medical course more efficiently.