ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL. OLD ULCER OF LEG ; SKIN-GRAFTING ; PECULIAR BEHAVIOUR OF ENGRAFTED SKIN.

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

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 ...

Tuberculous ulcer of the skin.

an augmented risk, because the most effective therapy cannot be used. Although the importation of chloramphenicol-resistant S. typhi is undesirable it need not arouse alarm in Britain, because opportunities for the spread of typhoid in this country are negligible. Nevertheless, if epidemics caused by chloramphenicol-resistant S. typhi occur on a sufficiently large scale in countries of high typ...

Peculiar evolution of streptococcal skin infections

Background Acute Streptococcus pyogenes infections may present under various forms, such as pharyngitis, scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis, cellulitis or impetigo. Toxigenic infections can result in necrotizing fasciitis, myositis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Following acute infections caused by S pyogenes, patients are also at risk for developing immune-mediated post-streptococca...