Use of a semipermeable polyamide dressing over skin grafts to venous leg ulcers.
A polyamide semipermeable mesh interface placed over a skin graft allows absorption of exudate and soaking of the graft with an antiseptic solution. Forty-five patients with large venous leg ulcers (more than 100 cm2) were treated by a split skin graft covered by a polyamide mesh. The mean time to healing and graft take was compared with those of a similar group of 30 patients whose graft was not protected by an interface. The mesh significantly shortened the mean time for complete healing from 41 to 32 days.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009757:Nylons; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing
D009757:Nylons