@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00016621,
 author = {TANAKA, JUNICHI},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {Nagoya Journal of Medical Science},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {Histological and in vivo examinations of skins were made in order to offer one of the grounds of tympanic skin grafting in the following 14 regions: the external auditory canal (cartilagineous portion), the retroauricular region, the upper arm (medial and lateral parts), the forearm (anterior and posterior parts), the thorax, the back, the abdomen (lateral and hypogastric parts), the inguinal region, the gluteal region, and the thigh (medial and lateral parts). Although considerably different in relation to individuals, both the data show some common characteristic trends of skin in different regious of the body surface irrespective of age. The present data were summarized as follows: L Thick skin pieces can be usually removed from the gluteal region and the abdomen. 2. The distribution of sebaceous glands is relatively scarce in the upper and lower extremities. Accordmgly, irrespective of the methods of transplantation, skin pieces removed from both the extremities are of more advantage in preventing them from infection and crust formation. 3. The distribution of sweat glands in skin pieces is almost uniform in the major regions ot the body surface. Skin pieces removed by the split thickness graft method are evenly available for tympanic grafting, and those from the back and gluteal regions are of more advantage in preventing them from infection because of the deepest presence of sweat glands there. 4. The distribution and thickness of hairs have a relation with the success of tympanic skin grafting. Perforation of skin pieces, to be induced by the thin split thickness graft method, is prevented by using the thick split thickness graft method, due to regeneration from the remaining part of the hair roots in the deeper layer of skin pieces. The possibility of development of cholesteatoma from hair roots is, however, prevented by using the same skins in the full thickness graft method. 5. The extension and distribution of elastic fibers, especially of deep horizontal thick elastic fibers, has a relation with the success of tympanic skin grafting- skin pieces removed from the retroauricular region, the back and the gluteal region are of advantage, because the distribution and extension of deep horizontal thick elastic fibers are found far deeper in those regions than anywhere else. 6. Considering from the abovementioned data, it is probable that skin transplants removed from the thigh, the back, the gluteal and retroauricular regions are theoretically more avaiable as tympanoplastic material, although it is difficult to determine their superiority or inferiority in detail as tympanoplastic material in the skins of the whole body surface examined.},
 pages = {173--187},
 title = {Basic Studies of the Skin Transplant for Tympanoplasty},
 volume = {33},
 year = {1970}
}