tissue expander in a sentence
Examples
- If there is not enough tissue to ( make the breasts ) match, you can add a tissue expander or an implant, but 99 percent of the time with an abdominal flap and skin-conserving mastectomy, there is no need for an implant.
- An inflatable tissue expander has been inserted under the skin around Richard's neck to help him grow as much extra skin as possible, said Dr . Dennis Schuster, the Fort Worth plastic surgeon whom Richard's mother credits with putting her son back together " piece by piece ."
- Although NSF is extremely uncommon, patients with a history of renal disease may not be able to undergo breast MRI . Further, an MRI may not be used for screening patients with a pacemaker or breast reconstruction patients with a tissue expander due to the presence of metal.