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Tissue Expansion Devices*

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Alopecia* ; Tissue Expansion Devices*

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Tissue Expansion Devices*

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Tissue Expansion Devices*

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Tissue Expansion Devices*

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Skin* ; Tissue Expansion Devices* ; Transplants*

The kissing nevus is a rare form of congenital melanocytic nevus. We present a case of a 4-year-girl with kissing nevus on the right eyelids. As a treatment, we used a tissue expander. In the first operation, The 16 cc sized rectangular-shape tissue expander was inserted within the subcutaneous layer at the right zygomatic area. After expansion for 5 months, local advancement flap was performed for lower eyelid reconstruction, and interpolation flap was carried for the upper eyelid. The remnant interpolation flap was removed and trimmed after 3 weeks. We report here a rare case of the kissing nevus on the eyelids that showed good results after reconstruction using a tissue expander.
Eyelids ; Nevus ; Nevus, Pigmented ; Tissue Expansion Devices

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Breast ; Female ; Mammaplasty ; Tissue Expansion Devices

A new balloon dissector, a modification of a Foley catheter, was devised and it can be used either as a dissector or a tissue expander. Since most operating time was spent in balloon manipulation (inflation/deflation), the duct for saline injection was made to be wider than the Foley catheter. As a result, the balloon could be inflated faster than before. In order to reduce the scar at the donor site, harvest of the sural nerve using endoscopic technique is currently applied, but utilization of this method is technically difficult and requires a long operating time. For these reasons, new our method of using a balloon dissector was devised. The balloon dissector can also be used for immediate intraoperative tissue expansion for the reconstruction of small skin defects without distortion. We have found that the advantages of using the new balloon dissector include a reduction in operating time, preservation of the perforating vessels, and primary closure with less tension. In addition, this simple and inexpensive instrument is cost-beneficial to patients.
Catheters ; Cicatrix ; Humans ; Skin ; Sural Nerve ; Tissue Donors ; Tissue Expansion ; Tissue Expansion Devices

Tissue expansion is commonly used method in reconstruction of skin defect after removal of various skin lesions or scars in face, trunk and extremities. However, the expansion pressure not only expands the overlying skin but also compresses the base tissue itself, which may result in depression or asymmetry. Many patients could not be satisfied with these deformities although their skin lesions were removed and reconstructed successfully. Many plastic surgeons have not taken into consideration of these facts. A total of 24 patients underwent 36 implants. The authors tried to fill the depression by manipulating surrounding capsular tissues with elevation of the capsular flap and its transposition to the depressed area, free graft of the resected capsular tissues into the depression. We also used adjacent soft tissues such as fascial flaps to fill the depression and prevented the expected depression deformity or asymmetry after removal of tissue expander. With this method, we achieved satisfactory aesthetic results without depression. There happened 4 cases of remnant depression due to under correction of it and 2 cases of hematoma formation and 1 case of skin necrosis.
Cicatrix ; Congenital Abnormalities* ; Depression* ; Extremities ; Hematoma ; Humans ; Necrosis ; Skin ; Tissue Expansion Devices ; Tissue Expansion* ; Transplants