title: Perichondrial cutaneous grafts for reconstruction of skin cancer excision defects.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Perichondrial cutaneous grafts (PCCGs) are composite grafts comprised of skin and subjacent perichondrium. Animal models and preliminary clinical reports have shown that PCCGs are thicker, survive better and contract less than full-thickness skin grafts, and are simpler to perform that alternative reconstructive methods such as two-stage flaps.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The applicability of PCCGs to surgical defects following Mohs surgery was investigated.
  
  
  METHODS
  PCCGs were used to reconstruct patients with surgical defects following Mohs excision of skin cancers from facial sites near free anatomic margins and in defects with exposed cartilage.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A series of cases is described, all with good to excellent cosmesis and function.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PCCGs are useful in reconstruction of defects following Mohs excision of skin cancers.
authors.affiliation: Section of Dermatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon New Hampshire 03756, USA.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Love
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Collison
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Carithers
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Ceilley
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015580:Mohs Surgery / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods