Full-load expansion technique and preliminary clinical application.
For accelerating the inflation process of soft-tissue expansion, a continuous inflation protocol regarding pain as the criterion of overinflation, the full-load expansion technique, has been introduced. It is carried out by restricting persistently the pressure in the expander near the pain threshold in a state of dynamic equilibrium between the infusing rate and the skin expansion velocity with a simple and practical device. This inflation is neither at a uniform infusion rate nor at a constant filling pressure. Nineteen expanders in 13 patients were inflated following this protocol. Their inflations were fulfilled in 5 to 20 days, depending individually on their anatomic regions, total volumes of infusion, areas of the overlying skin, and patient susceptibilities.
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Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing.
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Zhang
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He
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Song
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017078:Laser-Doppler Flowmetry; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D015626:Tissue Expansion / Q000379:methods*; D015625:Tissue Expansion Devices