MASSIVE REPAIRS OF BURNS WITH THICK SPLIT-SKIN GRAFTS

Cultured composite skin grafts for burns.

Banked allografts offer a prospect of immediate wound coverage Each year more than 10 000 people need admission to hospital in England and Wales for burns.' Immediate excision and grafting in patients with extensive burns is thought to improve survival-a hypothesis supported by retrospective studies of both children2 and adults,3 although not confirmed by a prospective study.4 Early grafting wo...

Microfenestrated split thickness skin grafts: an underused technique?

Scalp as a donor site for split thickness skin grafts.

BACKGROUND Use of scalp as a donor site was reported for the first time in 1964. Since then, authors have described scalp as a donor site, which heals rapidly and re-growth of hair conceals the donor site. This study was aimed at evaluation of scalp as donor site by calculating the healing time, and frequency of post-operative complications. METHODS This was a descriptive study and was conduc...

Treatment of bilateral severe eyelid burns with skin grafts: an odyssey.

Eyelid burns occur in about 10% of thermal injuries and pose a considerable challenge for the reconstructive surgeon. A consensus on a treatment regime has not been reached and plastic surgeons are divided on the subject. A case of severe bilateral eyelid burns was treated with full- and split-thickness skin grafts. The patient was first operated at 2 years post-injury, and a total of 5 operati...

Methods in obtaining split-thickness skin grafts from skin reduction surgery specimens

BACKGROUND To devise a method for obtaining bacterial culture-negative split-thickness skin grafts from specimens removed from living donors undergoing skin reduction surgery. METHODS Specimens were obtained from patients undergoing abdominal skin reduction surgery in inpatient and outpatient surgical settings. Skin specimens were cleaned in a method adapted from the former Yale Skin Bank's m...