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Descriptor English: Tissue Expansion
Descriptor Spanish: Expansión de Tejido
Descriptor expansión tisular
Scope note: Procedimiento en el que se estimula al organismo para que produzca tejido blando extra mediante la aplicación de fuerzas de estiramiento que promueven el nuevo crecimiento de tejido, lo que causa una expansión bidimensional del mismo. El procedimiento se usa en cirugía reparadora de lesiones derivadas de traumatismos, quemaduras o cirugía ablativa. Se han desarrollado diversos tipos de DISPOSITIVOS DE EXPANSIÓN TISULAR que ejercen fuerzas de estiramiento.
Descriptor Portuguese: Expansão de Tecido
Descriptor French: Expansion tissulaire
Entry term(s): Expansion, Tissue
Expansions, Tissue
Tissue Expansions
Tree number(s): E04.617.800
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015626
Scope note: A procedure whereby the body is stimulated to generate extra soft tissue by the application of stretching forces that stimulate new growth of tissue which, over a period of time, results in a 2-dimensional expansion of the tissue. The procedure is used in reconstructive surgery for injuries caused by trauma, burns, or ablative surgery. Various types of TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES have been developed that exert stretching forces.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Surgery, Plastic (1980-1989)
Surgical Flaps (1983-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
Related: Bone Lengthening MeSH
Tissue Engineering MeSH
Tissue Expansion Devices MeSH
DeCS ID: 24894
Unique ID: D015626
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/04/07
Revision Date: 2009/07/14
Tissue Expansion - Preferred
Concept UI M0023970
Scope note A procedure whereby the body is stimulated to generate extra soft tissue by the application of stretching forces that stimulate new growth of tissue which, over a period of time, results in a 2-dimensional expansion of the tissue. The procedure is used in reconstructive surgery for injuries caused by trauma, burns, or ablative surgery. Various types of TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES have been developed that exert stretching forces.
Preferred term Tissue Expansion
Entry term(s) Expansion, Tissue
Expansions, Tissue
Tissue Expansions



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