SKIN GRAFTING BY EXACT PATTERN

Skin-Grafting

Skin grafting by cross-leg flaps.

Destruction of the skin and subcutaneous tissues of the lower limb is often associated with injury to underyling tendons or bone. Sometimes the skin lesions are allowed to heal by granulation, or they are closed more rapidly by the application of split-skin grafts, and the results of such treatment may be entirely satisfactory. But healing by granulation often leads to chronic ulceration, and h...

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 ...

Discovering Themes by Exact Pattern Matching

1. INTRODUCTION Content-based music information retrieval provides ways for people to locate and retrieve music based on its musical characteristics, rather than on more familiar metadata such as composer and title. The potential utility of such systems is attested to by music librarians, who report that library patrons often hum or whistle a phrase of music and ask them to identify the corresp...

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...