When skin becomes too damaged to heal properly, your surgeon will perform a skin graft procedure, which involves transplanting healthy skin onto the damaged site. Conditions that may require this kind ...

Postarticular skin was an effective donor site for small- to moderate-sized split-thickness skin grafts for patients after Mohs micrographic surgery, according to study results. Among the 15 patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When used in conjunction with reticulated open cell foam, negative pressure wound therapy significantly ...

To get a head start on healing burn wounds, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University turn to the body's natural network. They combine engineered stem cell sheets with split thickness ...

More than six million cases of chronic wounds cost $20 billion each year in the United States. Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, surgical site wounds and traumatic injuries to high-risk patients ...

A 29-year-old woman was diagnosed with Flt-3-positive AML. In August 2004, she received allogeneic HSCT from her HLA-identical sister after a myeloablative-conditioning regimen. CsA and MTX were used ...

Full thickness skin grafts are the golden standard for treating burn wounds. But most skin grafts for severe burns require a donor, and for large or complicated injury sites, a full thickness skin ...

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

Three methods of cosmetic surgery—local skin flap, full thickness skin graft, and secondary intention—were evaluated for their scarring risk following Mohs microscopic surgery on the distal third of ...

Dr. Peter Grossman explained the treatment plan for the comedian's second and third-degree burns from a gasoline fire Jay Leno is currently recovering at Grossman Burn Center after a gasoline fire ...