Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision

We report a four-year-old boy with a nevus covering all the plantar side of his second finger on the left foot. He was also affected by congenital phimosis. Surgical excision of the nevus was indicated, but the skin defect would have been too large to be directly closed. The foreskin was taken as a...

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Autores principales: D'Alessio, A., Piro, E., Brugnoni, M., Abati, L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20981247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/951270
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author D'Alessio, A.
Piro, E.
Brugnoni, M.
Abati, L.
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description We report a four-year-old boy with a nevus covering all the plantar side of his second finger on the left foot. He was also affected by congenital phimosis. Surgical excision of the nevus was indicated, but the skin defect would have been too large to be directly closed. The foreskin was taken as a full-thickness skin graft to cover the cutaneous defect of the finger. The graft intake was favourable and provided a functional repair with good aesthetic characteristic.
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spelling pubmed-29637262010-10-27 Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision D'Alessio, A. Piro, E. Brugnoni, M. Abati, L. Int J Pediatr Case Report We report a four-year-old boy with a nevus covering all the plantar side of his second finger on the left foot. He was also affected by congenital phimosis. Surgical excision of the nevus was indicated, but the skin defect would have been too large to be directly closed. The foreskin was taken as a full-thickness skin graft to cover the cutaneous defect of the finger. The graft intake was favourable and provided a functional repair with good aesthetic characteristic. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2963726/ /pubmed/20981247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/951270 Text en Copyright © 2010 A. D'Alessio et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abati, L.
Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title_full Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title_fullStr Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title_full_unstemmed Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title_short Use of Preputial Skin as Cutaneous Graft after Nevus Excision
title_sort use of preputial skin as cutaneous graft after nevus excision
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963726/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/951270
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