Soft tissue coverage of the knee joint following burns.
Full-thickness burns around the knee joint are usually associated with exposure of bone, tendon or ligaments. Following excision of the deep burns, there is no viable wound bed to which skin grafts can be applied. Although vacuum-assisted closure has been used to encourage granulation tissue, exposure of the tendons and ligaments following excision usually requires muscle flaps or fasciocutaneous flaps.
Balakrishnan
Chenicheri
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Department of Plastic Surgery, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Flanagan
Thomas L
TL
Klein
Justin D
JD
Erella
Venkata S
VS
Saini
Manmit S
MS