Successful pharmacological treatment and treatment of large soft-tissue ulceration with split-thickness skin graft in a chronically critical ischemic leg.
The authors present the results of preoperative and postoperative prostacyclin analog treatment with skin grafting in a large ulceration of a chronic critical ischemic leg in a man who had lost his contralateral extremity 5 years ago. Healing was uneventful at the 6-month follow-up.
Firat
Cemal
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Inonu University Medical Faculty, Malatya, Turkey.
Coban
Y Kenan
YK
D006801:Humans; D016285:Iloprost / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014945:Wound Healing
D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D016285:Iloprost