We use the work of
Pfaltzgraff on subordination chains in ℂn to recover a growth theorem for starlike
mappings of the unit ball established recently by Barnard, FitzGerald and Gong. We
also introduce a class of strongly starlike maps for which we construct, aided by the
aforementioned technique, an explicit quasiconformal extension to ℂn. Several
examples are discussed at the end.