skin graft

Examples of skin graft in the following topics:

• Skin Grafts

  • Skin grafting is a type of graft surgery involving the transplantation of skin.
  • Skin grafting is a type of surgery involving the transplantation of skin.
  • Skin grafting serves two purposes.
  • Skin grafting can also be seen as a skin transplant.
  • Skin graft donor site, eight days after the skin was taken

• Organ Transplants

  • Tissues capable of transplantation include bones, tendons (both referred to as musculoskeletal grafts), corneas, skin grafts, heart valves, and veins.
  • The cornea and musculoskeletal grafts are among the most commonly transplanted tissues.
  • Regulations include criteria for donor screening and testing as well as strict regulations on the processing and distribution of tissue grafts.

• Tattoos

  • A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
  • A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
  • Pre-laser tattoo removal methods include dermabrasion, salabrasion (scrubbing the skin with salt), cryosurgery, and excision, which is sometimes still used along with skin grafts for larger tattoos.
  • Although laser treatment is currently the gold standard method to remove a tattoo, unwanted side effects of laser tattoo removal include the possibility of discoloration of the skin such as hypo-pigmentation (white spots, more common in darker skin) and hyper-pigmentation (dark spots) as well as textural changes.
  • A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

• Noncholera Vibrios

  • Reconstructive surgery, such as skin graft, is indicated in the recovery phase.

• Rhinoplasty

  • The open rhinoplasty approach in turn affords the plastic surgeon the advantages of ease in securing the grafts (skin, cartilage, bone) and, most important, in seeing the nasal cartilages proper, and so make the appropriate diagnosis.
  • This procedural aspect can be especially difficult in revision surgery and in rhinoplastic corrections of the thick-skinned "ethnic nose" of the colored man or woman.
  • Occasionally, the surgeon uses either an autologous cartilage graft or a bone graft, or both, in order to strengthen or to alter the nasal contour(s).
  • The autologous grafts usually are harvested from the nasal septum, but, if it has insufficient cartilage (as can occur in a revision rhinoplasty), then either a costal cartilage graft (from the rib cage) or an auricular cartilage graft (concha from the ear) is harvested from the patient's body.
  • Moreover, when neither type of autologous graft is available, a synthetic graft (nasal implant) is used to augment the nasal bridge.

• Bacterial Polyesters

• Breast Augmentation and Reduction

  • Breast augmentation denotes the breast implant and fat-graft mammoplasty procedures for correcting the defects, and for enhancing the size, form, and feel of a woman's breasts.
  • The surgical implantation approach effects global breast augmentation using either a saline-filled or a silicone-filled prosthetic breast; and it might also consist of corrections effected with transplanted skin flaps.
  • The fat-transfer approach effects the augmentation, and corrects the contour defects of the breast hemisphere with grafts of autologous adipocyte fat tissue.
  • In non-implant breast augmentation practice, some fat-graft injection approaches feature tissue engineering, which is the pre-operative external tissue expansion of the recipient site.
  • In non-surgical practice, the corrective approaches might consist either of an externally-applied vacuum device, which will expand the tissues of the recipient site, or of oral medications; yet, in most instances, the medium-volume, fat-graft augmentation of the breast is limited to one brassière cup-size, or less.

• Bacterial Skin Diseases

  • Impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection most common among pre-school children.
  • Dried streptococci in the air are not infectious to intact skin.
  • People with immune deficiency, diabetes, alcoholism, skin ulceration, fungal infections, and impaired lymphatic drainage (e.g., after mastectomy, pelvic surgery, bypass grafting) are also at increased risk.
  • The erythematous skin lesion enlarges rapidly and has a sharply demarcated raised edge.
  • Cellulitis can be caused by normal skin flora or by exogenous bacteria, and often occurs where the skin has previously been broken.

• Type IV (Delayed Cell-Mediated) Reactions

  • A classic example of delayed type IV hypersensitivity is the Mantoux tuberculin test in which skin induration indicates exposure to tuberculosis.
  • Other examples include: temporal arteritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, symptoms of leprosy, symptoms of tuberculosis, coeliac disease, graft-versus-host disease and chronic transplant rejection.
  • If a person has had a history of a positive tuberculin skin test, or had a recent tuberculin skin test (within one year), another skin test should be used.

• Bone Grafting

  • Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone in order to repair bone fractures.
  • Most bone grafts are expected to be reabsorbed and replaced as the natural bone heals over a few months' time.
  • As native bone grows, it will generally replace the graft material completely, resulting in a fully-integrated (remodeled) region of new bone.
  • The most common use of bone grafting is in the application of dental implants to restore the edentulous (without teeth) area of a missing tooth.
  • A surgeon places a bone graft into position during a limb salvage.