Epidermal Tumors Arising on Donor Sites From Autologous Skin Grafts: A Systematic Review
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Murine Full-thickness Skin Transplantation
Published on: January 2, 2017
Nikolaos Chaitidis1, Zoi Papadopoulou1, Vasileios Paraschou1
1Dr. Chaitidis is from the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. Dr. Papadopoulou is from the 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Hippokration General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Paraschou is from the 2nd Department of Pulmonology, University General Hospital Attikon, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Haidari, Greece, and Hellenic Police Medical Center, Thessaloniki. Dr. Panagiotidis is from the 1st Department of Surgery, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki.
Abstract:
Common complications of skin grafting used to cover cutaneous defects include bleeding, infection, pain, and graft failure. Epidermal tumor development on graft donor sites in the postoperative period has been reported. We performed a systematic search of the literature for cases of epidermal tumors arising on skin graft donor sites in patients undergoing autologous skin graft surgery. Our results included the demographic and clinical characteristics of these cases. We also provide a discussion on the nature of these lesions.
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