title: Tissue expansion in dermatologic surgery.
abstract: Reconstructive scar revision as a result of cutaneous malignancy, trauma, or cicatricial inflammatory disease can be augmented by tissue expansion. This more complicated, two-staged procedure provides expansion of adjacent, normal skin that is advanced as a flap to reconstruct defects with tissue of good color and texture match. Its adaptation in dermatology to scalp reduction for cicatricial alopecia and other cutaneous disease is described.
mesh_terms: D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps