Treatment of leg ulcers with split-thickness skin grafts.
A comparison is made between two groups of patients (Group A and Group B) suffering from chronic leg ulcers who were treated by split-thickness skin grafting. Group B was preoperatively treated with silver sulfadiazine cream; the healing results in this group were better than in Group A.
D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection; D014945:Wound Healing