ArticleScientific reports2016
A New Skin Tensiometer Device: Computational Analyses To Understand Biodynamic Excisional Skin Tension Lines.
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- Quantification of skin wound tension using a newly designed wound tensiometer.Tierarztliche Praxis. Ausgabe K, Kleintiere/Heimtiere · 2023Article
- Parallelogram Excision: An Algorithmic Approach for Excision Designs in High-Tension Skin Areas.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Continuous NPWT Regulates Fibrosis in Murine Diabetic Wound Healing.Pharmaceutics · 2022Article
- The Compressiometer: Toward a New Skin Tensiometer for Research and Surgical Planning.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2022Article
- Improving reconstructive surgery design using Gaussian process surrogates to capture material behavior uncertainty.Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2021Article
- Personalized Computational Models of Tissue-Rearrangement in the Scalp Predict the Mechanical Stress Signature of Rotation Flaps.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2021Article
- Quantifying fascial tension in ventral hernia repair and component separation.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2021Article
- Biodynamic excisional skin tension lines.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2019Article
- Biodynamic excisional skin tension lines for surgical excisions: untangling the science.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2018Article
- Biodynamic Excisional Skin Tension Lines for Excisional Surgery of the Lower Limb and the Technique of Using Parallel Relaxing Incisions to Further Reduce Wound Tension.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2017Article
- The Golden Spiral Flap: A New Flap Design that Allows for Closure of Larger Wounds under Reduced Tension - How Studying Nature's Own Design Led to the Development of a New Surgical Technique.Frontiers in surgery · 2016Article
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Abstract
One of the problems in planning cutaneous surgery is that human skin is anisotropic, or directionally dependent. Indeed, skin tension varies between individuals and at different body sites. Many a surgeon has tried to design different devices to measure skin tension to help plan excisional surgery, or to understand wound healing. However, many of the devices have been beset with problems due to many confounding variables - differences in technical ability, material (sutures) used and variability between different users. We describe the development of a new skin tensiometer that overcomes many historical technical issues. A new skin tension measuring device is presented here. It was designed to be less user-dependent, more reliable and usable on different bodily sites. The design and computational optimizations are discussed. Our skin tensiometer has helped understand the differences between incisional and excisional skin lines. Langer, who pioneered the concept of skin tension lines, created incisional lines that differ from lines caused by forces that need to be overcome when large wounds are closed surgically (excisional tension). The use of this innovative device has led to understanding of skin biomechanics and best excisional skin tension (BEST) lines.
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