When skin becomes too damaged to heal properly, your surgeon will perform a skin graft procedure, which involves transplanting healthy skin onto the damaged site. Conditions that may require this kind ...

Postarticular skin was an effective donor site for small- to moderate-sized split-thickness skin grafts for patients after Mohs micrographic surgery, according to study results. Among the 15 patients ...

A 29-year-old woman was diagnosed with Flt-3-positive AML. In August 2004, she received allogeneic HSCT from her HLA-identical sister after a myeloablative-conditioning regimen. CsA and MTX were used ...

To get a head start on healing burn wounds, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University turn to the body's natural network. They combine engineered stem cell sheets with split thickness ...

More than six million cases of chronic wounds cost $20 billion each year in the United States. Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, surgical site wounds and traumatic injuries to high-risk patients ...

Burns injure the skin and can also injure other parts of your body, such as your muscles, nerves, lungs, and eyes. Burns may also become infected easily. Pain from a burn may get worse in the first ...

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

Dr. Peter Grossman explained the treatment plan for the comedian's second and third-degree burns from a gasoline fire Jay Leno is currently recovering at Grossman Burn Center after a gasoline fire ...

For patients undergoing facial reconstruction following disfiguring cancer operations, a new technique pioneered by surgeons at UC San Francisco may enable them to look more like their former selves.

Full thickness skin grafts are the golden standard for treating burn wounds. But most skin grafts for severe burns require a donor, and for large or complicated injury sites, a full thickness skin ...