title: Expanded preauricular full-thickness free skin graft.
abstract: A preauricular skin graft with expansion for repair of a facial defect is presented. This technique preserves a more natural appearance in color, texture, and thickness than is otherwise possible and provides a larger graft than the usual preauricular graft method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Toho University Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iwahira
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maruyama
mesh_terms: D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D015626:Tissue Expansion / Q000379:methods*