title: [Clinical study of repairing donor site of thickness from cicatricial skin with auto-scalp grafting].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the effects of using auto-scalp for repairing donor site of thickness from cicatricial skin with auto-scalp grafting.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 13 cases with donor site of thickness from cicatricial skin from January 2011 to December 2011 were analyzed. Wounds of donor site from cicatricial skin were grafted with auto-scalp and scalp were fixation was applied with negative pressure. The survival rate of auto-scalp graft was observed at Day 7 post-operation. At Month 12, hyperplastic scars at these donor sites of cicatricial skin were assessed through Vancouver Scar Assessment Table, scar itch assessment and scar proliferation rate. Wounds in the other thirteen cases with donor site of thickness from cicatricial skin from January 2010 to December 2010 were covered with vaseline gauze as control.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant difference existed in the gender and age of the two groups patients (P > 0.05). The auto-scalp graft all survived. And the average healing time of donor-site wound in cicatricial skin in grafting group (7 days) was significantly decreased than that of control group (a mean of 20 days) (P < 0.01). After followed up for twelve months, the scar formation assessment value (1.5 ± 0.5), scar itch assessment (1.2 ± 0.4) and scar proliferation rate (14.6% ± 7.6%) in grafting group were significantly less than those of control group (6.7 ± 1.1, 2.0 ± 0.7, 55.8% ± 12.2%, all P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Auto-scalp grafting may greatly shorten the healing procedure and ameliorate the quality of donor-site of thickness from cicatricial skin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, General Hospital of PLA, Beijing, China. shenchuanan@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Chuan-an
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jia-ke
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dong-jie
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiao-ye
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Tuo
authors.forename: Jian-hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Shu-jun
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jin-dong
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012535:Scalp / Q000637:transplantation*; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014945:Wound Healing; D055815:Young Adult