Periscar tissue expansion

Abstract EN

By increasing the number of traumatic cases, burn victims and detection of rare congenital defects, plastic surgeons should improve their surgical techniques to manage these patients with better quality.

Correction of these deformities is important cosmetically, increases the self-confidence of the patients and enhances their mental health.

Tissue expanders have been used for several decades to eliminate different body scars, but healthy skin around the lesion would also be damaged.

To prevent this complication, the author has used trans-scar incision technique and inserted the tissue expander under normal and abnormal skin (scarred area) to expand the healthy tissue and then after removing tissue expander, scarred area is covered b multiple flaps.

This method has been used in 5 patients with scars of scalp (in two cases 2 tissue expanders were used and in 3 patients only one tissue expander was inserted).

The results were satisfactory.

By this method which is suggested by the author as periscar tissue expansion technique, it has two advantages: 1.

No new scar would be created. 2.

By expansion of healthy skin adjacent to the scar, the maximum expansion of normal skin will be achieved. In the present article, the periscar tissue expansion technique and its results in 5 patients is discussed.