USE OF PUBIC FAT AS A GRAFT FOR EYELID DEFECTS

Citation
P. Mckinney et S. Pandya, USE OF PUBIC FAT AS A GRAFT FOR EYELID DEFECTS, Aesthetic plastic surgery, 18(4), 1994, pp. 383-385
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
ISSN journal
0364216X
Volume
18
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
383 - 385
Database
ISI
SICI code
0364-216X(1994)18:4<383:UOPFAA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
This article suggests that pubic fat be used as a graft for repair of eyelid defects such as when the eye is too hollow since donor sites fo r eyelid grafts are limited. Pubic fat is granular and has smaller lob ules. Therefore, it was more likely to hold its shape when filling in a congenitally hollow lid. In our case report, a biopsy at 3.5 years s hows the viability of this graft.