ALLMedicine™ Skin Grafting Center

May 14th, 2022 - Complex lower limb reconstruction due to severe trauma remains a challenge for reconstructive surgeons. Here, we introduce a modified donor blood flow-preserved cross-leg anterolateral thigh flap procedure and evaluate its clinical efficacy. Betwe...

May 6th, 2022 - Trauma, burns, and diabetes result in nonhealing wounds that can cause bone or tendon exposure, a significant health threat. The use of an artificial regeneration template combined with skin grafting as an alternative method to highly invasive fla...

May 4th, 2022 - Skin wounds sometimes are difficult to heal by primary closure and often require tissue substitution by autologous grafting requiring harvesting of donor skin. The latter may cause morbidities such as risk of infection, discoloration, pain, and sc...

May 3rd, 2022 - Management of lower extremity wounds following successful tumor excision presents multiple challenges. Distal lower extremity integument is highly prone to edema often lacks adequate skin laxity for standard primary closures. The closure must be r...

Apr 30th, 2022 - Burn injuries requiring split-thickness skin grafting procedures often require ongoing wound aggravation in the form of dressing changes. These dressing changes may cause significant pain due to stimulation of damaged nerve endings in the epiderma...

Mar 15th, 2016 - Burns are a common type of skin injury encountered at all levels of medical facilities from private clinics to core hospitals. Minor burns heal by topical treatment alone, but moderate to severe burns require systemic management, and skin grafting...

May 4th, 2022 - Skin wounds sometimes are difficult to heal by primary closure and often require tissue substitution by autologous grafting requiring harvesting of donor skin. The latter may cause morbidities such as risk of infection, discoloration, pain, and sc...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - Burn injuries are considered as one of the most complex type of traumatic injuries. In the United States (US), about 1.25 million people are treated each year for burns, and 40,000 are hospitalized for the treatment of these injuries resulting in ...

Apr 6th, 2022 - Road traffic accidents (RTA) is the most common cause of open fractures of long bones, increase in RTA leading to increase of complex non-unions incidence. the Participants are usually undergoing multiple surgeries for healing or to eradicate infe...

Mar 15th, 2022 - Patients between the ages of 18 and 65 years of age inclusive with a ≤ 30% Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) that requires surgical or enzymatic debridement and split thickness skin grafting (STSG) on any body surface excluding the face, joints, peri...

Mar 2nd, 2022 - Subjects will be individuals undergoing unilateral or bilateral mastectomy; upper or lower limb amputation; primary, unilateral total knee or shoulder arthroplasty; primary, unilateral rotator cuff repair; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; and...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Bruce "BJ" Miller Jr., a 19-year-old Princeton University sophomore, was horsing around with friends near a train track in 1990 when they spotted a parked commuter train. They decided to climb over the train, and Miller was first up the ladder. Su...

Oct 26th, 2018 - For select patients undergoing Mohs procedures for skin tumors, delaying reconstruction enhanced viability of full-thickness skin grafts and composite grafts and decreased postoperative complication rates, a retrospective, single-institution study...

Aug 29th, 2018 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning about cases of necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum in patients taking sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. The new warning will be added to the prescribing information and the pa...

Aug 1st, 2018 - CHICAGO – A novel, commercially available fetal bovine collagen matrix provides “an ideal wound healing environment” for outpatient treatment of partial and full thickness wounds, ulcers, burns, and surgical wounds, Katarina R. Kesty, MD, declared.

Apr 9th, 2018 - Action Points Atorvastatin (Lipitor) added to phototherapy had no significant benefits over phototherapy alone in the evolution of active vitiligo, according to a small prospective, single-blind study of 30 European and Asian patients. Note that t...