A further application of buried chip skin grafting.
Buried chip skin grafting used to close a granulation wound, that cannot be kept at rest, or else is in some way irritated, is described. This requires an extremely small amount of skin. Although it takes a month to heal, irritation or contamination of the grafted area does not affect or have any influence on the take of graft survival. Therefore, the patient need not be kept at rest after surgery, and can continue with daily living or rehabilitation exercises.
Sawada
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Nihei
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing