[Surgical treatment of postburn deformities of the back of the hand]

The authors sum up their experience with the surgical treatment of postburn deformations of the dorsal surface of the hand in 50 patients. They describe the technique of radical dissection of all the scars of the dorsal surface of the hand and fingers and plasty of the interdigital commissures by palmar trapezoid whole thickness grafts. Wounds after excision of the scars were closed by nonperforated grafts of 0.3-0.4 mm thick splitted skin. Long-term results were followed up in 21 patients. All of them showed good functional and cosmetic results.