Diffusion of Antibiotics Across Tissue Expanders: An In Vitro Study
Diffusion of Antibiotics Across Tissue Expanders: An In Vitro Study is a scholarly work, published in 1994 in ''Annals of Plastic Surgery''. The main subjects of the publication include antibiotic, medicine, implant, biofilm, tissue expansion, Staphylococcus aureus, capsular contracture, breast augmentation, microsurgery, craniofacial surgery, Silastic, surgery, Staphylococcus epidermidis, saline solution, transplantation, and granulation tissue. The authors thus determined that antibiotics can diffuse through a tissue expander's Silastic membrane and establish an efficient bacteriostatic level in the surrounding fluid.