title: Successful pharmacological treatment and treatment of large soft-tissue ulceration with split-thickness skin graft in a chronically critical ischemic leg.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Inonu University Medical Faculty, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Cemal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Firat
authors.forename: Y Kenan
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Coban
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D016285:Iloprost