When skin becomes too damaged to heal properly, your surgeon will perform a skin graft procedure, which involves transplanting healthy skin onto the damaged site. Conditions that may require this kind ...

Postarticular skin was an effective donor site for small- to moderate-sized split-thickness skin grafts for patients after Mohs micrographic surgery, according to study results. Among the 15 patients ...

A major finding of this randomized trial was that hydrocolloid dressings applied to the donor site shortened the healing process by about 1 week, making this dressing type the clear winner. Of ...

To get a head start on healing burn wounds, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University turn to the body's natural network. They combine engineered stem cell sheets with split thickness ...

A 29-year-old woman was diagnosed with Flt-3-positive AML. In August 2004, she received allogeneic HSCT from her HLA-identical sister after a myeloablative-conditioning regimen. CsA and MTX were used ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The lower limb is at higher risk of surgical site failure after lesion removal, especially in patients with ...

PROMPT spontaneous and firm adhesion between a split skin graft and a healthy granulating surface has been observed by surgeons for many decades. The nature of the reaction between the tissues that ...

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

Romain Grosjean underwent skin graft surgery on his severely burned left hand Tuesday, the latest step in his healing process following his death-defying crash that ended his Formula 1 career -- and ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...