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In 1988, Masumi Inaba in Japan introduced the use of a 1-mm punch for extracting individual follicular units. In 2002, Rassman refined the procedure and named it follicular unit extraction (FUE) or the FOX procedure (follicular unit extraction). FUE serves as an alternative to the use of a strip in donor harvesting [1]. FUE attracts the attention of those who desire hair transplantation but are turned off by a linear donor scar.
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Ng, B. (2010). Follicular Unit Extraction in the Asian Population. In: Pathomvanich, D., Imagawa, K. (eds) Hair Restoration Surgery in Asians. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-99659-0_28
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