A tissue expander, designed to be gradually inflated to stretch the skin, was inserted during Monday's operation.
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Sometimes a tissue expander is used to " stretch " the hairy area to help cover the bald areas.
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For the baldness, Donelan began by surgically installing a " soft-tissue expander " under the area of scalp that still produces hair.
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In one cosmetic surgery, doctors put a tissue expander beneath his scalp, then inflated it with saline twice a week for several months.
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Surgeons also repeated one procedure from the first operation _ inserting a pouch called a tissue expander beneath the scalp of one of the boys.
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Since the attack, Louise has had at least 41 surgeries, four in the past month because she has had trouble with the tissue expander in her chest.
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Patients expected to receive radiation therapy as part of their adjuvant treatment are also commonly considered for delayed autologous reconstruction due to significantly higher complication rates with tissue expander-implant techniques in those patients.
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When a woman doesn't have enough tissue to spare for a TRAM flap, as in Wood's case, a balloon-like tissue expander is placed under the pectoral muscle where the breast is to be reconstructed.
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Since the attack, Louise has had at least 41 surgeries, four in the past month because she has had trouble with the tissue expander in her chest, which would help her grow new skin to cover her neck and chin.
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In a breast-reconstruction procedure, within a multi-stage reconstruction-mammoplasty, a tissue expander ( a temporary breast-implant device ) is emplaced and used to prepare ( shape and enlarge ) the recipient site ( implant-pocket ) to receive and accommodate the breast implant prosthesis.
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