<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Andrew Mark Klapper, MD — research</title><description>Peer-reviewed publications in reconstructive surgery, wound care and skeletal muscle repair.</description><link>https://andrewklapper.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Sandwiching Muscle Acellular Reconstruction Technique: An Early Feasibility Technique for Acute Skeletal Muscle Transection Stabilization</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/smart-muscle-acellular-reconstruction-technique/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/smart-muscle-acellular-reconstruction-technique/</guid><description>A technique for stabilising acute full-thickness skeletal muscle transection, in which acellular dermal matrix is used to sandwich the transected muscle ends and restore immediate mechanical continuity.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creation of skin grafts from traumatic avulsed skin</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/skin-grafts-from-traumatic-avulsed-skin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/skin-grafts-from-traumatic-avulsed-skin/</guid><description>A protocol for traumatic skin tears combining traumatic skin grafts with minced expansion grafts, recovering usable graft from tissue avulsed in trauma rather than discarding it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Multidisciplinary Application of an External Tissue Expander Device to Improve Patient Outcomes: A Critical Review</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/external-tissue-expander-critical-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/external-tissue-expander-critical-review/</guid><description>Review of external tissue expansion across surgical specialties.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Technique: Acute Minced Expansion Graft of Traumatic Wound Tissue</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/acute-minced-expansion-graft/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/acute-minced-expansion-graft/</guid><description>Salvaging debrided traumatic tissue back into the wound as an autologous graft by minced expansion grafting, rather than discarding it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A novel way to treat skin tears</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/novel-way-to-treat-skin-tears/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/novel-way-to-treat-skin-tears/</guid><description>Argues that a skin tear should be treated as a skin graft rather than as a random-pattern flap whose injured blood supply must be preserved.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nonextremity replantation: the management of amputations of the facial parts and testicle</title><link>https://andrewklapper.com/research/nonextremity-replantation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://andrewklapper.com/research/nonextremity-replantation/</guid><description>Management of amputations outside the extremities, from the New York reconstructive microsurgery period.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>