title: Healing of Donor-site Buccal Mucosa Urethroplasty.
abstract: Buccal mucosal graft represents the gold standard graft material for urethroplasty because of its thick epithelium and a thin lamina propria for maximal graft uptake. There is an ongoing debate whether to close the buccal graft donor site. We show a unique look at buccal donor site healing through serial pictures over a 100-day period. In this patient, the anterior half of the buccal donor site was closed at the time of harvest, allowing real-time observation of wound healing from both the closed and open aspects of the wound.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Department of Urology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: amjadwal@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Amjad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alwaal
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Catherine R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Enriquez
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Jack W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: McAninch
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Benjamin N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Breyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D060053:Transplant Donor Site / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*