Rapid expansion: experimental and clinical experience.
One of the drawbacks of clinical expansion is delay of the final reconstruction and patient inconvenience. The authors have explored the physiologic response to rapid expansion in an animal model and present initial clinical experiences with three patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000502:physiology*; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000601:surgery; D011312:Pressure; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013552:Swine