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Lulu Chen1, Bo Wang, Xiaona Liu
1Hair Transplantation Center, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China.
Abstract:
Hair transplantation has been an effective technique for facial contour modification. Hair follicular units (FU) harvested from scalp strip is the gold-standard method for hair transplantation. The difference in obtaining FU from different shapes of scalp strips is not clear yet. Follicular units of 127 patients were harvested from scalp strip through parallelogram incision or fusiform incision from October 2017 to January 2020. The number of FU in 1 cm 2 scalp strip were calculated and paired t test were used to compare the difference in hair follicle acquirement rate between 2 incisions. The number and acquisition rate of FU by parallelogram incision were significantly higher than that by fusiform incision. Therefore, parallelogram incision might be more suitable to harvest FU for hair transplantation surgery.
