21 citations
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August 1991 in “The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology” This study found that intraoperative tissue expansion increased the amount of excised scalp by 20-30% during scalp reduction surgery for male pattern alopecia.
25 citations
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January 2001 in “Facial Plastic Surgery” This article reviews the history, methods, and complications of tissue expansion and serial excision for scar revision in the head and neck, and reports no new findings.
2 citations
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January 2017 in “Recent clinical techniques, results, and research in wounds” This study found that adding galeotomies to subgaleal tissue expander placement for post-burn alopecia resulted in faster scalp expansion and reduced complications of expander extrusion.
11 citations
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August 2013 in “Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America” This article discusses the use of tissue expansion combined with older surgical techniques to repair large scalp defects and reports no new clinical results.
14 citations
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May 1987 in “Archives of Dermatology” This article discusses tissue-expansion augmented scalp reduction as a surgical option for cicatricial alopecia patients who are otherwise not candidates for traditional hair replacement techniques, but it reports no new clinical results.