Skin grafting for penile skin loss

Skin-Grafting

Reconstruction of the penile skin loss due to "radical" circumcision with a full thickness skin graft.

BACKGROUND Excessive resection of penile skin is a rare but important complication of circumcision. Penis "trapping" under the skin and consequent sexual dysfunction occur as a result. CASE REPORT Excessive circumcision with complete resection of the penile skin is shown. Penis, trapped under the skin, was deliberated and skin defect was substituted with the full thickness skin graft. One yea...

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 ...

Penile Skin Bridges after Circumcision

We herein present a healthy 13-year-old adolescent, who complaint of tightening and tugging of his penis during erections. He was circumcised at the age of three year. Clinical examination revealed three skin bridges at 3, 11 and 12 o’clock position, with a width of about 2-3 mm each. These acted as bridles during erections (Fig. 1). The bridges were surgically excised under general anesthesia ...

Useful tips for successful skin grafting.

Skin grafting is a common operative method widely used in the field of plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery. However, we offer five suggestions to reduce complications and surgical invasiveness. Our tips are as follows. (1) Skin grafts should be harvested on the basis of a swimsuit with high-cut leg openings. (2) A drum dermatome is still useful when a split-thickness skin graft is ne...