title: [Study on clinical application of expanded skin tubes].
abstract: Skin transplantation is an operative method generally used in reparative and reconstructive surgery. How to minimize the cicatrices of the donor site, how to repair larger recipient site, and how to reconstruct organs with restoration of their functions and shapes are important problems in plastic surgery. Since September 1990, we have designed a technique of expanding skin tubes for the repair of wounds and for the reconstruction of organs when larger area of skin is required while the skin of the donor site is deficient, or when the cicatrices of the donor site are to be minimized. This technique had been applied clinically in 10 cases. Clinical practice has proved that this new operative method is superior to skin grafts, transplantation of skin flaps, and the conventional technique of expanding skin and soft tissue. This paper describes the five characteristics and the theoretical basis of the technique of expansion of skin tubes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Second People's Hospital of Nanning, Guangxi.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ruan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D015626:Tissue Expansion / Q000379:methods*