The rigid transparent dome protector: a new dressing for free-tissue transfers and skin grafts.
We have presented a transparent, inexpensive, rigid dome that allows a window to the wound, humidity chamber effect to continuously observe difficult skin-grafted wounds or free-tissue transfers allowing constant monitoring by visualization. The dome is inexpensive because it is simply a discarded breast implant package.
White
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Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Meland
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D001458:Bandages; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps