title: A role for lasers in the treatment of pigmented skin grafts.
abstract: The development of aberrant pigmentation represents an unwelcome complication to an otherwise successful split skin graft resulting in a loss of colour match and, so it follows, of cosmesis. We present two cases where lasers have been successful in the treatment of this problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, St Johns Hospital, Livingston, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raine
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: al-Nakib
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Quaba
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D017495:Hyperpigmentation / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D053685:Laser Therapy; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*