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    Glossary Tissue Expanders

    medical devices that stretch skin for reconstructive surgery

    Tissue expanders are medical devices used to stretch the skin and surrounding tissues, typically in preparation for reconstructive surgery. They are often used in procedures to treat conditions like alopecia or after mastectomies, where the expander is gradually filled with saline over time to encourage the growth of extra skin that can later be used for reconstruction.

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    1. Scalp Repair Using Tissue Expanders Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America · 2013 · 11 citations
    2. Outcomes of Tissue Expander Application for Scalp Reconstruction in Extensive Aplasia Cutis Congenita Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 2015 · 4 citations
    3. Tissue Expanders in Post-Burn Alopecia: With or Without Galeotomies Recent clinical techniques, results, and research in wounds · 2017 · 2 citations
    4. Tissue Expanders for Hair Restoration in the Scalp: Overexpansion Does Matter Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open · 2024
    5. 88 Tissue expandersin scalp repairScalp repairScalp Repair Using Flaps and Tissue Expanders Hair Transplantation · 2022
    6. Alopecia secondary to repaired occipital encephalocele - role of tissue expander in hair restoration. PubMed · 2018
    7. Adjuncts to Scalp Reduction Surgery: Intraoperative Tissue Expanders and Hyaluronidase The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology · 1991 · 21 citations
    8. Role of Tissue Expander in Yemeni Post Burn Patients, Post Traumatic Scars, and Defects Management مجلة جامعة الحضارة للبحوث التطبيقية والإنسانية · 2025
    9. Telogen Effluvium as a complication of scalp reconstruction with tissue expander: a case report. PubMed · 2021 · 1 citations
    10. Mechanical Stretch Upregulates SDF-1α in Skin Tissue and Induces Migration of Circulating Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells into the Expanded Skin Stem Cells · 2013 · 43 citations
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