Intractable venous leg ulcer treated successfully with allogeneic cultured dermal substitute.
Venous leg ulcers are resistant to various treatments, including autologous skin grafting. We applied an allogeneic cultured dermal substitute in a patient with such a wound, and the wound improved, healthy granulation tissue formed, and the size of the wound was reduced.
Hasegawa
Toshio
T
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan. t-hase@med.juntendo.ac.jp
Suga
Yasushi
Y
Mizoguchi
Masayuki
M
Muramatsu
Shigenori
S
Mizuno
Yuki
Y
Haruna
Kunitaka
K
Ikeda
Shigaku
S
Kuroyanagi
Yoshimitsu
Y
Ogawa
Hideoki
H
D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003646:Debridement; D006097:Granulation Tissue; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017768:Skin, Artificial; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*