Case report: Use of skin grafting to keep a scleroderma patient ambulant.
A case of scleroderma is presented in which there was extensive skin involvement with contractures, but without any systemic manifestation. This patient has been kept ambulatory by repeated skin grafting. The grafts were taken from the few areas which were not involved with the disease. The grafting was successful, and so far the skin grafts have remained free of disease.
D000328:Adult; D003286:Contracture / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee; D008124:Locomotion; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000150:complications; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous