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The Penn State Research Foundation

Ernest K Manders

Donald R Mackay

Andrea M Koegel

Thomas Hooker

Ernest C Manders

A soft tissue expander includes an expandable cover, a base, an adjustable central portion and a connecting member joined to side portions and extending across the central portion to determine the width of the expander.

Dimensionally adjustable soft tissue expander

A new method for the preparation and sterilization of skin allografts is presented. Human skin allografts are radiated in the present invention and applied as a temporary wound dressing on a graft dome. The invention is particularly useful for wound and burn therapies and presents a low cost, safe, and effective treatment that can be widely used with extensive storage capability.

Preparation of inexpensive, HIV-free human skin allograft

A soft tissue expander includes a dimensionally adjustable base. The shape of the base is optimally adjusted prior to inserting the expander into an incision formed below a layer of skin to be expanded.

Dimensionally adjustable soft tissue expander and method

A tissue expander for expanding hair to cover temple bald recesses includes a base having a central arm and a pair of end arms separated by a pair of concave recesses and an expandable cover joined to the edge of the base.

Tissue expander and method of treating male temple baldness

A soft tissue expander device adapted to be implanted beneath a layer of skin and subcutaneous tissue and filled with fluid to differentially expand the overlying tissue including methods for differentially expanding soft tissue and treating male pattern baldness.

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Hummelstown, PA, United States of America

Ernest K Manders