On the long-term behavior of grafts of meshed skin.
In the past four years, 47 patients in our institution had grafts of meshed skin placed on a variety of defects. Indications, advantages and disadvantages, and postoperative phenomena are presented. Ten cases were available for a follow-up study of one to four years. Subjective complaints in the graft sites; vulnerability of the grafts to ordinary trauma; the patient's opinion of the postoperative condition; visibility of the mesh pattern; level; hyper- or hypopigmentation of the grafted sites; occurrence of hypertrophic scars or keloids; return of sensations (touch, pressure, cold, warmth, and epicritic pain); and thermographic findings in the graft sites were inquired about and judged objectively.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009506:Nevus / Q000601:surgery; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous