Feb 12, 2010

Indian hospital performs scar-free tissue harvesting surgery

The Sahara Hospital recently became the first hospital in India's state, Uttar Pradesh, to be able to perform a type of plastic surgery known as endoscopic flap harvesting, in which patients are left with no scars.

Most standard plastic surgery tissue harvesting techniques leave large scars behind because of long incisions made on the surface of the skin, which can form keloids when they heal.

Endoscopic flap surgery, however, involves making a small hole in the body where the tissues are to be harvested, IndianExpress.com reports. The method can be used in both rehabilitation and aesthetic plastic surgeries.

"We did a reconstructive surgery of a patient whose breasts were deformed due to cancer surgery," Dr Albrecht Krause Bergmann of the University of Munster in Germany, told the news source.

He added, "We harvested the tissues from her back and with a very small hole which will not leave a scar. The breast augmentation was done through open surgery."

Many breast augmentation surgeries leave scars when patients begin to heal, though these blemishes can be prevented with the use of silicone gel sheeting, applied to the affected area for two weeks following the surgery.
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