Sentences with phrase «thickness skin grafting»

Following the removal of dead / damaged tissue at day 4, the authors treated the wounds with split - thickness skin grafts (STSG) or meshed STSG (mSTSG) and compared these to mSTSG accompanied by a polyethylene - glycol - fibrin - based hydrogel laden with increasing concentrations of in vitro expanded porcine ASCs.

Not exact matches

However, split - thickness grafting must be performed in an operating room and the technique is limited by the availability of donor skin.

The grafts that best approximate the look and feel of a face are «full - thickness» grafts, which involve harvesting the outer (epidermal) layer of skin along with the underlying (dermal) layers from elsewhere on the body.

A second degree burn deep thickness may take several weeks to heal and can progress to a third degree burn, this burn may cause scarring and could require scission and skin grafting.