Multidisciplinary treatment of a complicated crural degloving injury in a diabetic patient

Abstract Diabetes is a common disease that potentially interferes with healing processes after lower limb trauma. In our presented case trimalleolar ankle fracture undiscovered serious soft-tissue injuries resulted in chronic complications diabetic patient, requiring three and half months of hospitalization higher level center the application state-of-the-art wound treatment, including vacuum-assisted closure therapy, Integra bioengineered skin substitute, split-thickness skin-grafting, methods enhancing healing, such as polarized light therapy transdermal CO2 delivery. The emphasizes importance care multidisciplinary approach trauma patients poor compliance.