Skin grafting has been done for over 100 years, and the importance of the type of graft--split
thickness, full thickness or composite--has been well established. However, the importance …

Grafting of Skin Page 1 Symposium on Plastic Surgery for General Surgeons Grafting of Skin
Lars M. Vistnes,MD,FRCS(C)* A schematic outline of a cross section of the skin shows the …

THE great number of traumatic cases handled by the surgical service of the Cincinnati
General Hospital, as well as the relatively large number of chronic ulcers and the many …

The development of skin grafts has been interesting, and dramatic and many ingenious
procedures have been devised. They are divided broadly intotwo main groups:(a) the free …

The fundamentals of skin grafting are simple and well founded and are becoming more and
more useful outside of the fielld of plastic sugery. The two major stumbling blocks at the …

ALTHOUGH skin grafting is an ancient art, the processes of graft healing have been
carefully observed and reported only during the past 90 years. The several histologic …

THE MANAGEMENT of a large skin defect is often a difficult problem because of a limited
amount of available donor skin. Methods heretofore used to cover large skin defects …

1. An experience with 203 thin skin grafts and 278 thick skin grafts used for the purpose of
alleviating the damage caused by a severe burn is alluded to briefly. 2. 2. Insistence on early …

Plastic Surgeon in Charge at an Emnergency Hospital In order that the principles of the new
method may be understood it will be useful first to give a short review of the usual types of …

This paper is based on a study of the literature, and my own personal clinical and
experimental observations, and also includes a critical review of 550 house cases which …