Role of technique of head skin stretch in the plastic surgery of head-facial region
- Author:
Son Thiet Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
plastic surgery
- MeSH:
Surgery, Plastic;
Skin Pigmentation;
surgery;
therapeutics
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):30-32
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
-
Abstract:
17 patients with scar due to the burn (77%) and congenital pigment in the head and face, ages of 1-44 received plastic surgeries in the National Institute of Burn of which facial lesion and head skin lesion due to many different causes. The results have shown that frontal skin stretch bags were suitable for local lesions. The head skin stretch bags with hair were suitable for the lesions in the adjacent region.
