Regulated Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (RNPT) Combined Topclosure in the Treatment of Skin Defect for Open Fracture in Lower Extremity

Currently, open fracture in lower extremity is a common trauma, which can easily form the skin defect. If the skin defect become an ulcer or ulcer like wound, the treatments will encounter a sticky situation that is hard to heal. Although skin flap grafting, tissue stretching and expansion can be available in this situation, however, they all have disadvantages, such as time consuming, costly, and difficult to operate, etc.. In this case, we reviewed one novel treatment, RNPT (regulated negative pressureassisted wound therapy) combined with Topclosure (skin stretching and wound closuresecure system) , for an skin defect patient with lower extremity open fracture, which achieved sound outcome.