EPITHELIUM AND SKIN GRAFTING.

Skin-Grafting

Skin Grafting of Burns

This book outlines the essential points of care which have proved of benefit in treating a large series of patients with full-thickness loss of skin and requiring skin grafting, at the Washington University Medical School Children's Hospital and Barnes Hospital, during the course of a long period. In the first chapter, the authors stato : ' In the extensive literature on burn's, there has been ...

Some Notes on Skin Grafting

Mode of operation.?A small piece of the skin was taken up by means of an ordinary dressing forceps, and with a sharp scalpel it was cut, or rather shaved off, care being taken, if possiable, to avoid drawing blood. The piece removed was never more than an eighth of in inch in diameter, aud wa3 generally divided into two or more smaller portions upon the thumb nail, each division being placed se...

Lower Third Nasal Skin Grafting

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Skin Grafting

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a heritable connective tissue disorder with an estimated prevalence of one in 10,000 to 25,000 persons [1]. Using clinical phenotype, biochemical and molecular defects, as well as inheritance patterns, a total of 6 subtypes have been described [2]. Although its hallmark findings include severe joint laxity and hyperextensible skin, this condition is known to affect a v...