Tie-over Bolster Dressings May Not Be Necessary to Secure Small Full Thickness Skin Grafts
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Dermatologic Surgery
- Vol. 24 (12) , 1350-1353
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4725.1998.tb00013.x
Abstract
Background.The accepted method for securing full thickness skin grafts (FTSG) is with a tie-over bolster dressing, with or without basting sutures. We question the need for tie-over bolster dressings for small FTSGs.objective.We describe our method of FTSG reconstruction and the outcome in a consecuKeywords
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