Clinical application of shaped sub-full thickness skin grafting to repair wounds
KONG Xiang-hong
LI Yan
ZHANG Zhi-hua
ZHOU Li-ping
CHU Hai-han
LI Xi-rong
Abstract：Objective To observe the wound repair effect of shaped sub-full thickness skin grafting tech-nology in wound repair .Methods From Aug.2004 to Jun.2012,45 patients received skin grafting using shaped sub-full thickness skin.There were 32 males and 13 females,aged from 1 to 54 years (mean,32.5 years).Among the patients,24 patients received skin grafting following scar excision ,including 9 cases in hand,6 cases in face,4 cases in foot ,and 3 cases in popliteal region ,and 2 cases in cervical region;21 patients received skin grafting follow-ing burn injury,including 13 cases in hand,4 cases in face,1 case in foot,and 3 cases in cervical region .The skin grafting size ranged from 4cm ×6cm to 22cm ×15cm.Results Small hematoma was observed under the grafted skin in 3 patients,among whom,2 cases healed naturally after dressing change ,1 case underwent a second grafting in small range.The other 42 skin grafts were completely survived .After half a year to 1 year of follow-up,the appear-ance and function of these repaired skin gained ideal effects except varying degree of amorphous pigmentation in 3 cases.Conclusion The shaped sub-full thickness skin graft is an ideal technique to gain aesthetic repair of wounds.
Keywords：sub-full thickness skinskin graftingwound repair
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 422-424 )