title: [More stress should be laid on the application of microsurgical techniques in the repair of destructive burns and traumas, and intractable wounds].
abstract: Destructive burns and traumas which create composite tissue damages, as well as intractable wounds, usually cause the difficulties or inefficacy in the repair and management through ordinary skin grafting or tissue transplantation owing to the complex defects, unhealthy healing condition, or high requirements for the function and appearance reconstruction of the injured local tissues. The advantages of free tissue transplantation with microsurgical techniques in the tissue repair and reconstruction have been demonstrated as meeting the composite tissues restoration, improving blood supply, avoiding further damage to the wound surrounding tissues, and simplifying the distant tissue transplantation procedure, and therefore significantly decreasing the deformities with good functional and morphological outcomes, and dramatically reducing the hospitalization duration with less complications and faster restitution. In the present discussion, basing on the general literature review and the summary of our long-time clinical application of microsurgical techniques in dealing with serious injuries, we put forward the view that the microsurgical techniques should be considered as the first option for the treatment of destructive burns and traumas, and intractable wounds. And in some cases, only microsurgical techniques can be used, otherwise amputation would be unavoidable, or the optimal treatment would be abandoned or delayed. Meanwhile, it should be emphasized that the risk and the failure rate of performing microsurgical operation can be overcome through strictly hard training.
authors.affiliation: Department of Burns and Cutaneous Surgery, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
authors.forename: Da-hai
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*