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Tie-over dressings in full-thickness skin grafts
Benjamin Pulvermacker1, Marc Chaouat, Deborah Seroussi
1Plastic, Aesthetic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery Unit, Rothschild Hospital, Paris, France.
Background:
A full-thickness skin graft is often performed by tie-over dressing to compress and immobilize it.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to compare the results of a full-thickness skin graft with tie-over dressing performed with the classic technique and with simple dressing.
Methods And Materials:
This was a prospective study in which 25 patients had tulle gras jelly tie-over dressing and 25 patients had a simple tulle gras dressing after full-thickness skin graft for nipple areola reconstruction.
Results:
Graft success on the fifth day was evaluated at 100% for patients with a simple dressing and at 99% for those with tie-over dressing.
Conclusions:
In this study, simple dressing appeared to be at least as effective as the tie-over dressing. Simple dressing, however, was faster and left fewer residual marks than the tie-over dressing.
