Skin Grafts
Indications, Applications and Current Research
Contributor(s)
Spear, Marcia (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
The procedure of skin grafting has been performed since 3000BC and with the aid of modern technology has evolved through the years. While the development of new techniques and devices has significantly improved the functional as well as the aesthetic results from skin grafting, the fundamentals of skin grafting have remained the same, a healthy vascular granulating wound bed free of infection. Adherence to the recipient bed is the most important factor in skin graft survival and research continues introducing new techniques that promote this process. Biological and synthetic skin substitutes have also provided better treatment options as well as HLA tissue typing and the use of growth factors. Even today, skin grafts remain the most common and least invasive procedure for the closure of soft tissue defects but the quest for perfection continues.
Keywords
General surgeryDOI
10.5772/892Webshop link
https://www.intechopen.com/booksISBN
9789533075099, 9789535164654Publisher
IntechOpenPublisher website
https://www.intechopen.com/Publication date and place
2011Imprint
IntechOpenClassification
Surgery