We report the first use of the Integra Bilayer Matrix Wound Dressing (Integra LifeSciences Corp), a collagen sheet with glycosaminoglycans and a silicone layer, in an innovative reconstruction approach to devastating traumatic tissue loss in the periocular area. A 36-year-old woman was involved in a motor vehicle crash with a resultant large defect from the medial canthus to the temporal fossa ...

It is not sufficiently appreciated that methly alcohol is very toxic. For econoi' reasons, methyl (wood) alcohol is employed as a substitute for tbyl (grain) alcohol, in what may be termed comparatively innocent products, such as perfumes, hair tonics, skin lotions, , '/ polishes, varnishes, etc. Government analysts, not infrequently, find it employed in the manufacture of various extracts for ...

Skin is an important barrier protecting the organism against external environmental factors. Determination of its mechanical characteristics as regards its structure has significant scientific and application value. In this work, uniaxial tensile tests were conducted to determine the basic mechanical parameters of skin with respect to its structure. The subject of the study were skin samples ta...

BACKGROUND Looking for an appropriate skin substitute for temporary and permanent coverage of wounds remains one of the main obstacles of medical researchers. OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of inflammation, symbiosis, and survival of grafted allograft skin from brain-dead donors (BDDs) in rabbits. METHODS After receiving negative serologic tests of BDDs, we prepared partial thickness ski...

Abstract Diabetes is a common disease that potentially interferes with healing processes after lower limb trauma. In our presented case trimalleolar ankle fracture undiscovered serious soft-tissue injuries resulted in chronic complications diabetic patient, requiring three and half months of hospitalization higher level center the application state-of-the-art wound treatment, including vacuum-a...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesize that the pathogen-free NIKS human keratinocyte progenitor cell line cultured in a chimeric fashion with patient's primary keratinocytes would produce a fully stratified engineered skin substitute tissue and serve to deliver autologous keratinocytes to a cutaneous wound. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Chimeric autologous/allogeneic bioengineered skin substitutes offer an i...