Dr. Dzubow's comments in "Hair Restoration: Turbo Transplants and Fractured Follicles" (Dermatol Surg 1995;21:283), regarding Dr. William Rassman's recent article "Micrografting in Extensive Quantities" (Dermatol Surg 1995;21:306-11), state that "questions remain unanswered." I have been working closely with Dr. Rassman for some time and perform extensive micrografting myself. In addition, I ha...

Background: Melanocytes transplant for treatment of vitiligo is a common therapy using different surgical procedures. But there was no interest in repigmentation of grayness of hair in the treated vitiliginous area. Objective: To do melanocytes transplant from donor area into the recipient vitiliginous area with associated gray hair. Patient and Methods: This is a case interventional study was ...

The standard of care for wound coverage is to use an autologous skin graft. However, large or chronic wounds become an exceptionally challenging problem especially when donor sites are limited. It is important that the clinician be aware of various treatment modalities for wound care and incorporate those methods appropriately in the proper clinical context. This report reviews an alternative t...

The exclusive use of very small grafts has moved from the experimental to the forefront. Dense packing of minigrafts of 1.5 mm or less in combination with one-or two-haired grafts offers the appearance of comparable density and undetectability, while using donor hair very efficiently. The use of smaller grafts in greater quantity offers many advantages normally unavailable with traditional larg...

Background: In case of large burn injuries, split-thickness skin graft (STSG) is limited by donor skin availability. It is not possible to achieve an expansion of more than 1:9 using conventional STSG. Here we introduce Xpansion micrografting technique, which allows a substantially larger expansion ratio enabling adequate coverage of large wounds. Methods: Pre-clinical and clinical studies usin...

Several taxa of Cactaceae are endangered by overcollection for commercial purposes, and most of the family is included in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES). Micropropagation may play a key role to keep the pressure off wild populations and contribute to ex situ conservation of endangered taxa. One of the limits of micropropagation is the spec...