Tangential excision of burns: Studies on the metabolic activity of the recipient areas for skin grafts
1973; Elsevier BV; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0007-1226(73)80001-3
ISSN1465-3087
AutoresJ.C. Lawrence, A. Simon Carney,
Tópico(s)Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
ResumoRECENT reports (Jan~ekoviS, 1968; Jackson, 1969) have suggested that certain types of burn may not requh'e complete excision in order to provide an adequate recipient bed for skin grafts.The principle of this operation, known as tangentiaI excision (Jackson, 1969), is to excise the burn down to the deeper layers of the zone of stasis where punctate bleeding occurs, rather than to excise all the damaged tissue and expose an obviously viable graft bed which bleeds freely.Since tangential excision and skin grafting involve a new concept in the skin grafting of burns, laboratory studies were made in parallel with the cli~fical study to investigate what the biological basis might be for the take or failure of skin grafts with this technique.Accordingly various aspects of the metabolism of biopsies were examined by methods described by Lawrence and Ricketts (I957), Lawrence (1961) arid Carney, Lawrence and Ricketts (I965).
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