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New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds
Performing a skin graft is not feasible for tendon-exposed defect reconstruction because tendons are fibrous connective tissues with relatively poor blood supply. This study proposes a method to effectively perform skin graft surgery in tendon-exposed wounds. A 48-year-old male patient with diabetes...
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Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35086316 http://dx.doi.org/10.5999/aps.2021.00297 |
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author | Um, Jung Hwan Jo, Dong In Kim, Soon Heum |
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description | Performing a skin graft is not feasible for tendon-exposed defect reconstruction because tendons are fibrous connective tissues with relatively poor blood supply. This study proposes a method to effectively perform skin graft surgery in tendon-exposed wounds. A 48-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus had a very large left dorsal foot defect (8×8 cm). The wound bed had healthy granular tissue, with tendon exposure. The tendons were turned over so that the posterior side would behave as the anterior side. The edge of the paratenon was then fixed together to the surrounding granulation tissue or dense remnant fascia using absorbable sutures, and the close granulation tissue was approximated and buried. A split-thickness skin graft was performed after 1 week. The graft site was stably taken on postoperative day 3. A small disruption was then observed at the graft site within 1 week postoperatively, but conservative treatment was continued for 1 month, after which the defect site was completely restored. This technique can increase the success rate of skin grafts for defects with tendon exposure. |
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spelling | pubmed-87956582022-02-07 New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds Um, Jung Hwan Jo, Dong In Kim, Soon Heum Arch Plast Surg Extremity/Lymphedema Performing a skin graft is not feasible for tendon-exposed defect reconstruction because tendons are fibrous connective tissues with relatively poor blood supply. This study proposes a method to effectively perform skin graft surgery in tendon-exposed wounds. A 48-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus had a very large left dorsal foot defect (8×8 cm). The wound bed had healthy granular tissue, with tendon exposure. The tendons were turned over so that the posterior side would behave as the anterior side. The edge of the paratenon was then fixed together to the surrounding granulation tissue or dense remnant fascia using absorbable sutures, and the close granulation tissue was approximated and buried. A split-thickness skin graft was performed after 1 week. The graft site was stably taken on postoperative day 3. A small disruption was then observed at the graft site within 1 week postoperatively, but conservative treatment was continued for 1 month, after which the defect site was completely restored. This technique can increase the success rate of skin grafts for defects with tendon exposure. Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2022-01 2022-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8795658/ /pubmed/35086316 http://dx.doi.org/10.5999/aps.2021.00297 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Extremity/Lymphedema Um, Jung Hwan Jo, Dong In Kim, Soon Heum New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title | New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title_full | New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title_fullStr | New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title_full_unstemmed | New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title_short | New proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
title_sort | new proposal for skin grafts on tendon-exposed wounds |
topic | Extremity/Lymphedema |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35086316 http://dx.doi.org/10.5999/aps.2021.00297 |
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