Tissue Expansion for the Surgical Correction of Complications Caused by Hair Replacement Fiber Implants
January 1997
in “
European journal of plastic surgery
”
Studysummary This case report describes a 45-year-old man with androgenetic alopecia who developed painful abscesses after monacrylic hair fiber implantation, requiring surgical intervention with tissue expansion and flap repair.
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A 45-year-old man with androgenetic alopecia developed painful abscesses after receiving monacrylic hair fiber implants. To treat this, surgeons used a U-shaped tissue expander in the occipital and parietal areas of his scalp. After expansion, three flaps were created to repair the chronically infected area.