Poorer scar outcomes after burn injury are associated with larger, deeper burns, injury at a younger age, burns in pigmented skin types and a longer time to healing after injury. In particular, there ...

For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove ...

Scientists in Sweden have developed a groundbreaking “skin in a syringe” — a gel packed with live cells that can be applied directly to wounds or even 3D-printed into skin grafts. Designed to help the ...

To investigate if donor and recipient site morbidity (healing time and cosmesis) could be reduced by a novel, modified split-thickness skin grafting (STSG) technique using a dermal component in the ...

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...

To successfully treat a severe burn, doctors must manage pain, restore skin integrity, and close the wound as quickly as possible, while avoiding secondary issues such as scarring, wound contracture, ...

Mussels have long been known for the adhesive they produce, which allows them to cling to rocks. The protein responsible has now been utilized in a new skin grafting technique, which reportedly ...

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 ...

Bio-engineered skin grafts can play an important role in the treatment of burn victims. Researchers at the University of Zurich have been working on new approaches for such grafts for over 15 years.