Objectives. Several modalities have been advocated to treat traumatic scars, including surgical techniques and laser resurfacing. Recently, a plasma skin regeneration (PSR) system has been investigated. There are no reports on plasma treatment of mesh skin grafted scars. The objective of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness and complications of plasma treatment of mesh skin grafted scars ...

it is difficult to reconstruct an alar defect with cartilage involvement. here in the authors report a case of traumatic alar loss during childhood in which an alar reconstruction was carried out with a composite auricular graft put over the pedicle buccal flap which was rotated and passed through the intraoral side. the lining skin and auricular cartilage for the flap was obtained from the aur...

BACKGROUND Skin graft survival and healing requires rapid restoration of blood flow to the avascular graft. Failure or delay in the process of graft vascularization is a significant source of morbidity and mortality. One of the primary regulators of blood flow and vessel growth is nitric oxide (NO). The secreted protein thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) limits NO-stimulated blood flow and growth and comp...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes of eyelid reconstruction in patients who underwent full thickness skin grafts. METHODS A retrospective, noncomparative intervention study of patients who underwent periocular reconstruction with full thickness skin grafts between 2005 and 2011. RESULTS One hundred consecutive Caucasian patients were included in the study, 54 women and 46 men. Mean follow up ...

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Objectives: To evaluate the amnion graft in vaginoplasty, to assess the advantage of a flap placed over fourchette and to evaluate the benefit of gauze mould. Methods: Out of the 35 subjects of primary amenorrhea, eight with complete vaginal agenesis were selected for vaginoplasty. Half of these received split thickness skin graft and other half received amnion graft. An additional triangular f...

Crandall CG, Davis SL. Cutaneous vascular and sudomotor responses in human skin grafts. J Appl Physiol 109: 1524–1530, 2010. First published June 17, 2010; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00466.2010.—Each year millions of individuals sustain burns. Within the US 40,000–70,000 individuals are hospitalized for burn-related injuries, some of which are quite severe, requiring skin grafting. The grafting p...