בשל "הגנת זכויות יוצרים", מובא להלן קישור למאמר בלבד. לקריאתו בטקסט מלא, אנא פנה לספרייה הרפואית הזמינה לך.

Plastic surgery owes its name to the Greek word “plastikos,” meaning to give shape.

Autologous fat transfer (AFT) got us closer to this original endeavor.

Fat injections enabled us to enlarge tissues without implants or flap transfers.

But reliability remained an issue. We soon realized that to be successful, tissue augmentation required more than just filling the recipient tissues with fat.

The extracellular fibrovascular scaffold, a major determinant of soft-tissue size and shape, also had to be addressed.

For the tissues to get larger, their fibrous scaffold has to stretch, expand, or loosen to accommodate the new size and shape.