NEW DONOR AREAS IN SKIN GRAFTING

Fractional Skin Harvesting: Autologous Skin Grafting without Donor-site Morbidity

BACKGROUND Conventional autologous skin grafts are associated with significant donor-site morbidity. This study was conducted to determine feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a new strategy for skin grafting based on harvesting small columns of full-thickness skin with minimal donor-site morbidity. METHODS The swine model was used for this study. Hundreds of full-thickness columns of skin ti...

Skin complications of blood vessel donor limbs and their association with diabetes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting

Background and Aim: According to the limited clinical observations and researches on cutaneous complications and hair growth changes of donor's site extremities, this study aimed to compare hair growth changes and cutaneous complications of donor's site extremity in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft between diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Methods: Patients who attended ...

Skin-Grafting

The scalp as a donor site for skin grafting in burns: retrospective study on complications

BACKGROUND Split skin grafting (SSG) is the cornerstone in the treatment of deep burns and large skin defects. Frequently used donor sites are the thigh, abdomen and buttocks. The scalp is less common while considered as a reliable donor site. Advantages are a large surface area, rapid wound healing, cosmetically favourable results and multiple harvests from the same donor site. Complications i...

Skin grafting: comparative evaluation of two dressing techniques in selected body areas.

BACKGROUND Skin grafting is a frequent surgical procedure used to reconstruct a soft-tissue deficit. Tie-over bolster dressing is the traditional technique made to fix the graft to the recipient area. This dressing does not always provide satisfactory results in some difficult body areas, with poor skin graft taking as an outcome. Here, we used a soft "polyurethane sponge" as a compressive tool...