Surgical treatment of skin depigmentation caused by burn injuries.
Thin split-skin autografts of normal color were performed on depigmented skin caused by second- and third-degree burns in 32 patients. Repigmentation appeared in almost all the recipient areas soon after grafting and no depigmentation occurred again in the treated area.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010859:Pigmentation Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012880:Skin Pigmentation; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous