Historical Evolution of Skin Grafting—A Journey through Time

Autologous skin grafting was developed more than 3500 years ago. Several approaches and techniques have been discovered and established in burn care since then. Great achievements were made during the 19th and 20th century. Many of these techniques are still part of the surgical burn care. Today, au...

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Autores principales: Kohlhauser, Michael, Luze, Hanna, Nischwitz, Sebastian Philipp, Kamolz, Lars Peter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33916337
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57040348
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description Autologous skin grafting was developed more than 3500 years ago. Several approaches and techniques have been discovered and established in burn care since then. Great achievements were made during the 19th and 20th century. Many of these techniques are still part of the surgical burn care. Today, autologous skin grafting is still considered to be the gold standard for burn wound coverage. The present paper gives an overview about the evolution of skin grafting and its usage in burn care nowadays.
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spelling pubmed-80666452021-04-25 Historical Evolution of Skin Grafting—A Journey through Time Kohlhauser, Michael Luze, Hanna Nischwitz, Sebastian Philipp Kamolz, Lars Peter Medicina (Kaunas) Review Autologous skin grafting was developed more than 3500 years ago. Several approaches and techniques have been discovered and established in burn care since then. Great achievements were made during the 19th and 20th century. Many of these techniques are still part of the surgical burn care. Today, autologous skin grafting is still considered to be the gold standard for burn wound coverage. The present paper gives an overview about the evolution of skin grafting and its usage in burn care nowadays. MDPI 2021-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8066645/ /pubmed/33916337 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57040348 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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