Skin grafting is a technique for treating injured, broken, or lost skin. A split-thickness skin graft is made by shaving off a thin area of healthy skin from elsewhere on the body. Share on Pinterest ...

The biggest concern for patients undergoing skin grafting are scarring post-surgery and the regeneration of transplanted skin. The depth of scarring after suturing varies depending on the skill of the ...

Surgery is usually the main treatment for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma as well as most types of melanoma. Other times, surgery is used together with other treatment types.

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 ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...

Not all wounds require surgery. The size and depth of the patient’s wound will determine if they need surgery and which surgery is most appropriate. The majority of burn surgery procedures are skin ...

Researchers found that mutated mouse embryos showing an abnormal epidermal differentiation and injected with mouse pluripotent stem cells grew large patches of mature epidermis derived from the donor ...