EARLY SKIN GRAFTING IN WAR WOUNDS OF THE EXTREMITIES

War Wounds of the Extremities. War Surgery Supplement No. 2 (British Journal of Surgery)

Advances in skin grafting and treatment of cutaneous wounds.

The ability of the skin to repair itself after injury is vital to human survival and is disrupted in a spectrum of disorders. The process of cutaneous wound healing is complex, requiring a coordinated response by immune cells, hematopoietic cells, and resident cells of the skin. We review the classic paradigms of wound healing and evaluate how recent discoveries have enriched our understanding ...

The Treatment of War Wounds

randum on some of the more important and most recent improvements in the treatment of war wounds," and was compiled at the request of the Medical Committee of the National Eesearch Council. Though thus written at secondhand, it contains the views of many eminent surgeons who have firsthand experience of their subjects. It is indeed a glossary of many of the recent methods of surgery that have b...

The Treatment of War Wounds

in some detail, with the aid of several figures, followed by chapters on stereoscopic localisation, tetanus, gas gangrene and wounds of the head, chest, joints and abdomen. In no case do the chapters pretend to completeness; they are merely notes on recent improvements in methods. The " Ambrine " treatment of burns is dealt with, and the newest antiseptics?Dichloramin-T, Acriflavine, and Brilli...

War Wounds of the Lung