Since its introduction 20 years ago for the treatment of chronic wounds, negative pressure
wound therapy use has expanded to a variety of other wound types. Various mechanisms of …

Autologous fat transplantation has become increasingly popular in recent years. Its
biocompatable properties and availability made it a widely used treatment modality for soft …

Current Clinical Applications of Fat Grafting : Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Current
Clinical Applications of Fat Grafting : Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery AMERICAN SOCIETY …

Keloids tend to occur on highly mobile sites with high tension. This study was designed to
determine whether body surface areas exposed to large strain during normal activities …

Keloids and hypertrophic scars are fibroproliferative disorders (FPDs) of the skin that result
from abnormal healing of injured or irritated skin. They can be called pathological or …

Background: Fat grafting is now widely used in plastic surgery. Long-term graft retention can
be unpredictable. Fat grafts must obtain oxygen via diffusion until neovascularization occurs …

Background: Autologous fat grafting to the breasts was banned in 1987 because of
unpredictable graft retention and cyst formation that could not be differentiated from cancer …

We use evidence-based algorithms to treat abnormal scarring, including keloids and
hypertrophic scars (HSs). This involves a multimodal approach that employs traditional …

Background: The ability of autologous fat transfer to reconstruct an entire breast is not
established. The authors harnessed the regenerative capabilities of external expansion and …

The mechanophysiological conditions of injured skin greatly influence the degree of scar
formation, scar contracture, and abnormal scar progression/generation (eg, keloids and …