Source details
- Authors
- Alexander M. Zöllner; Maria A. Holland; Kord S. Honda; Arun K. Gosain; Ellen Kuhl
- Journal or source
- Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
- Year
- 2013
- DOI or authoritative URL
- 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.03.018
- Study type
- Mechanobiology review and computational framework
- Population or material studied
- Reconstructive tissue expansion literature and models of acute deformation and chronic skin growth.
- Major findings
- Reviews skin as a living system that can gain surface area under controlled chronic overstretch.
- Limitations
- A general review/modeling framework. Clinical expansion parameters cannot be transferred directly to penile restoration.
- Relevance to restoration
- Supports biological plausibility or background only. It does not validate a foreskin-restoration device, method, force, duration, or timeline.
- Source-review status
- Abstract reviewed
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-11
Reviews skin as a living system that can gain surface area under controlled chronic overstretch.
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