{"title":"Clinical Application Of Natural Tissue Expansion In The Face","authors":"A. Mahajan, T. Chapman","doi":"10.5580/224e","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Full thickness skin grafts always leave a scar irrespective of where they are taken from. If scars are inevitable for other concomitant surgery we should use this to our advantage. Here, we describe the use of an area of naturally expanded skin on the face for full thickness skin grafting.","PeriodicalId":284795,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Plastic Surgery","volume":"392 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Plastic Surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/224e","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Full thickness skin grafts always leave a scar irrespective of where they are taken from. If scars are inevitable for other concomitant surgery we should use this to our advantage. Here, we describe the use of an area of naturally expanded skin on the face for full thickness skin grafting.