The Use of Self-Inflating Hygroscopic Tissue Expanders to Facilitate Osteosarcoma Removal in a Massasauga Rattlesnake (<i>Sistrurus catenatus</i>)

<div>Massasauga rattlesnake (<i>Sistrurus catenatus</i>). Intraoperative photograph taken after extraction of two self-inflating hygroscopic tissue expanders. The excess expanded skin is visible on the near side of the incision. There is a thin band of soft tissue between the two implant sites (arrow). The ventral surface of the neoplasm is displacing the ventral scales (arrowhead).</div>

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Figure 4: The Use of Self-Inflating Hygroscopic Tissue Expanders to Facilitate Osteosarcoma Removal in a Massasauga Rattlesnake (<i>Sistrurus catenatus</i>) 

Figure 4 | The Use of Self-Inflating Hygroscopic Tissue Expanders to Facilitate Osteosarcoma Removal in a Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus) 