SKIN GRAFTING WITHOUT DRESSINGS.

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...

Randomized clinical trial of donor-site wound dressings after split-skin grafting.

BACKGROUND The aim was to study which dressing material was best for healing donor-site wounds (DSWs) after split-skin grafting as there is wide variation in existing methods, ranging from classical gauze dressings to modern silicone dressings. METHODS This 14-centre, six-armed randomized clinical trial (stratified by centre) compared six wound dressing materials in adult patients with DSWs l...

Skin-Grafting

Effects of Wound Dressings on Skin Properties

The treatment of chronic wounds, burns and scars is not easy to solve, because the most suitable dressing for wound care depends not only on the type of wound but also on the stage of the healing process. Wound dressing have been employed to speed up the healing process in acute and chronic wounds by keeping healing tissues moist and increasing superficial wound epithelialization [1,2]. Apart o...

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 ...