Baux S, Mimoun M, Hilligot P
Service de chirurgie plastique, Hôpital Rothschild, Paris.
Chirurgie. 1990;116(4-5):373-7.
This technique of skin expansion with inflatable balloons has rapidly become generally used since Neuman's and Radovan's work. It offers new prospects for the treatment of the sequellae of burns as it allows increasing the surfaces of the remaining unaffected skin and using them to cover the excision of scar lesions by local or remote flaps. Experience with more than 500 implanted balloons is assessed, demonstrating very satisfactory general results in spite of a still too high number of complications, which increasingly refined techniques aim at reducing.
