External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report

The reconstruction of forehead and scalp defects is a difficult task. Common reconstructive methods are associated with multiple complications and may fail, requiring a difficult second surgery. We present the use of external tissue expansion as a method to achieve effective closure of a failed scal...

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Autores principales: Chan, Peter Y. W., Patel, Elina, Paulin, Ethan, Shah, Ajul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9481077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2123809
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spelling pubmed-94810772022-09-17 External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report Chan, Peter Y. W. Patel, Elina Paulin, Ethan Shah, Ajul Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report The reconstruction of forehead and scalp defects is a difficult task. Common reconstructive methods are associated with multiple complications and may fail, requiring a difficult second surgery. We present the use of external tissue expansion as a method to achieve effective closure of a failed scalp and forehead reconstruction. Taylor & Francis 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9481077/ /pubmed/36118124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2123809 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title_full External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title_fullStr External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title_full_unstemmed External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title_short External tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
title_sort external tissue expansion to salvage failed scalp and forehead reconstruction: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9481077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2123809
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