Tissue expansion technique - a new way for modern plastic surgery

ABSTRACT

The method of tissue expansion overcame the disadvantages of traditional plastic reconstruction. The materials comprised the skin expansion bag, and empty bags for containing fluid. The indication of tissue expansion comprised covering of the defect of adjacent tissue, preparation for other operation and distribution as a free tissue flaps. The technique contraindicated for patients with mental disorder, previous radiated tissue, and position of expansion bag was adjacent with lesion of blood vessels and malignant tissues. The complication comprised the incision rupture, ulcerated skin necrosis, infection, malnutrition of skin had and explicit of expansion bag due to the excessive rapid pumping