[Defect coverage in the surgical therapy of advanced skin tumors].
In the operative treatment of skin cancer large excisions are often necessary. The malignant melanoma must be excised primary with the 3--5 cm safety margin depending on the localisation. Therefore a primary wound closure is not possible, and the wound must be closed in a second step with skin grafts or regional flaps. Temporary grafting of the large excision-wound with a synthetic skin substitute (Epigard) is useful to observe recurrences and to bring the wound in a good condition for grafting. In the years 1979/1980 74 malignant melanomas and 157 basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas were treated in this manner.
D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D005465:Fluorocarbon Polymers; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000601:surgery; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D012535:Scalp / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014945:Wound Healing
D005465:Fluorocarbon Polymers; C010946:polytetrafluoroethane
Defektdeckung bei der operativen Therapie ausgedehnter Hauttumoren.