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Scalp necrosis in a neonate treated with cultured autologous keratinocytes

M J Morykwas1, E S Beason, L C Argenta

  • 1Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.

A neonate compromised by a stressful labor, low birth weight, anemia, seizures, and enterocolitis developed necrosis of a caput succedaneum of the calvaria. Coverage with cultured autologous keratinocytes was successful and represents a treatment modality with minimal morbidity compared with conventional split-thickness skin grafts.

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