Skin injury is the most common type of injury, which manifests itself in the form of wounds
and cuts. Wound healing, which typically involves the formation of a clot, is a complex …

Skin can be mechanically stimulated to grow through a clinical procedure called tissue
expansion (TE). Using a porcine TE model, we determined that expansion promptly …

Tissue expansion is a technique used clinically to grow skin in situ to correct large defects.
Despite its enormous potential, lack of fundamental knowledge of skin adaptation to …

Growth of skin in response to stretch is the basis for tissue expansion (TE), a procedure to
gain new skin area for reconstruction of large defects. Unfortunately, complications and …

The skin is the largest organ in the human body and serves various functions, including
mechanical protection and mechanosensation. Yet, even though skin's biomechanics are …

Tissue expansion (TE) is the primary method for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. In
many cases, mastectomy patients undergo radiation treatment (XR). Radiation is known to …

The skin is a multilayered organ with microstructural and antomical heterogeneities that
contribute to its unique mechanophysiology. Between the epidermis layer at the top and the …

Skin expands and regenerates in response to mechanical stretch. This important
homeostasis process is critical for skin biology and can be exploited to generate extra skin …

Background: Biological cover over tissue expander prostheses has been introduced to
provide soft-tissue support for tissue expanders during breast reconstruction. However, its …

In addition to providing extra flap size, the tissue expansion process also brings changes in
flap thickness. This study aims to identify the changes in the forehead flap thickness during …