Expansion in Head and Neck at Sohag University Hospital

Elsayed, Gamal Youssef; Bahgat, Esam E.; Abulezz, Tarek A; Abd El Hameed, Hossam F.

doi:10.21608/smj.2018.41306

Expansion in Head and Neck at Sohag University Hospital

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Plastic Surgery Faculty of Medicine University of Sohag

² Department of plastic surgery, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University.

³ Department of General surgery, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University.

10.21608/smj.2018.41306

Abstract

Background: Tissue expansion is widely used in the head and neck, it have many advantages as the expanded tissue have the same color and texture of the treated area of the skin.
Objectives:The aim of this work is to evaluate the expander utilization in head and neck reconstruction regarding indications and complications.Patients and methods: This is a prospective study included 30patients (18 female and 12 male), their age ranged from 3 to 36 years with mean value of 16 years,all patients were evaluated and managed in the plastic surgery department at Sohag university hospital. Results: the most cases of tissue expander used for scalp reconstruction followed by neck and nose reconstruction, young aged mostly treated with tissue expander than old aged and female more than male. Conclusion:The use of expanders provides the surgeon with a very reliable, simple method of reconstruction, the most common indications of expander uses were the post burn lesion alopecia of the scalp, post burn scar of the face, congenital melanocytic nevus of the forehead, haemangioma of the nose and congenital lymphatic malformations of the neck. The most common complications were expander exposure, wound dehiscent and serosa.

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