Plastic and reconstructive surgery
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg.
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg. · Mar 2010
Meshed skin grafts placed upside down can take if desiccation is prevented.
The role of the wet environment in wound healing has been investigated in various studies. The current study explores the role of the wet wound environment in promoting healing of skin grafts. The authors hypothesized that the survival of skin grafts is dependent not only on the orientation of transplantation but also on the environment into which the skin is transplanted. ⋯ The wound environment has an important role in the survival and proliferation of skin grafts, as demonstrated by survival of inverted meshed grafts in the wet environment and their contribution to accelerated reepithelialization, equal to the regularly placed grafts.