[Reconstruction in burn injuries]

In third-degree burn injuries vital, functional or esthetic indications require surgical therapy. In order to keep the risk of infection as low as possible it is necessary to begin with the necrectomy as soon as possible. Extent and depth of the damaged tissue, the degree of the wound infection as well as the patient's physical condition decide whether the defect should be covered temporarily or whether an autologous splitskin transplantation should be performed. In addition to stripe transplants meshgraft-transplants of different sizes have proved to be very successful in surgery of burn injuries.