A full-thickness skin graft is a procedure that’s used to treat injuries and heal surgical wounds. Grafts are typically taken from healthy skin elsewhere on the body and placed over the damaged or ...

A Dorchester County man is home a week earlier than might typically be expected after an MUSC Health team performed the first reported successful minimally invasive skin graft on a burn in the U.S.

Seven-year-old Hassan was dying. An infection had destroyed most of his skin, he was too weak to eat, and he was in agony. Doctors in Germany were planning to provide palliative care — keeping the ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...

When someone is seriously burned, they face a number of health challenges. In order to close the wound, doctors graft skin from other parts of the body, creating more wounds and increasing the risk of ...

During a vaginoplasty surgery, a surgeon creates both an outer and inner vagina by using skin and tissue from a penis. During most vaginoplasties, your surgeon will use a skin graft to create a new ...

Immediate nasal reconstruction post-BCC excision does not elevate re-excision or recurrence risk, supporting its viability. The study analyzed 318 cases, showing no significant difference in ...