Glabrous dermal grafting: A 12-year experience with the functional and aesthetic restoration of palmar and plantar skin defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1679-1685

  Wu, Liza C ^a,b   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a University of Chicago Hospitals ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NEVUS; DONOR SITE; EPITHELIZATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT SOLE; GLABROUS DERMAL GRAFTING; GLABROUS SKIN; GRAFT FAILURE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MELANOMA; PALMAR DEFECT; PLANTAR DEFECT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN SENSATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 27744543696     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000186662.43997.48     Document Type: Article

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