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GRAFTS. SPLIT SKIN FULL THICKNESS COMPOSITE BONE. SKIN ANATOMY. EPIDERMIS DERMIS DERMO-EPIDERMAL JUNCTION HAIR FOLLICLES HOLOCRINE GLANDS ECCRINE & APOCRINE GLANDS SUBCUTANEOUS FAT. DEFINITION OF SKIN GRAFT.
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GRAFTS SPLIT SKIN FULL THICKNESS COMPOSITE BONE
SKIN ANATOMY • EPIDERMIS • DERMIS • DERMO-EPIDERMAL JUNCTION • HAIR FOLLICLES • HOLOCRINE GLANDS • ECCRINE & APOCRINE GLANDS • SUBCUTANEOUS FAT
DEFINITION OF SKIN GRAFT • COMPLETE DETACHMENT OF PORTION OF INTEGUMENT FROM DONOR TO HOST BED WHERE IT ACQUIRES A NEW BLOOD SUPPLY • CONSISTS OF EPIDERMIS PLUS DERMIS (MORE OR LESS)
SELECTION OF TYPE OF GRAFT • SPLIT SKIN • FULL THICKNESS
SPLIT SKIN • DONOR SITE • CAN BE RE-HARVESTED • HEALS SPONTANEOUSLY • WOUND CONTAMINATED ALWAYS
SPLIT SKIN DISADVANTAGES • CONTRACTION • PIGMENTATION • LACK OF GROWTH • LACK OF DURABILITY
FULL THICKNESS GRAFT • ENTIRE THICKNESS
FULL THICKNESS: Advantages • RESISTS CONTRACTION • GROWTH IN CHILDREN • TEXTURE AND PIGMENT • SIMILAR TO NORMAL SKIN
FULL THICKNESS DISADVANTAGES • REQUIRE EXCELLENT NUTRITION • NO CONTAMINATION
CHOICE OF DONOR SITE • SCALP • EXTREMITIES • ABDOMEN • BACK • DONOR SCAR • HOST COLOUR
DONORSITE • TRY TO HIDE • EXTREMITIES AND TRUNK GRAFTS – YELLOW • BLUSH AREA FOR FACE • SCALP AND SUPRACLAVICULAR • SCALP GRAFTS ARE SUPERFICIAL THEREFORE NO HAIR, NO BALDNESS • EXTREMITIES IN OLDER PATIENTS FOR OTHER AREAS • AVULSED PARTS
- FULL THICKNESS DONOR SITES • EYELID • POST-AURICULAR • SUPRACLAVICULAR • GROIN (HAIRLESS AREA) • LABIA MINORA • PREPUCE • SCROTUM • NIPPLE & AREOLA • WRIST • ELBOW • AVULSED PARTS • N.B. HAIRBEARING AREAS IN CHILDREN
HARVESTING • POWER DERMATOME • HAND KNIFE • DRUM DERMATOME • ANAESTHESIA • TOPICAL • LOCAL – REGIONAL/FIELD • GENERAL • ADRENALIN PACKS
MESHING EXPANDED UNEXPANDED
ADVANTAGES • INSUFFICIENT SKIN • CONVOLUTED SURFACE • SLIGHTLY OOZING SURFACE
DISADVANTAGES • APPEARANCE • CONTRACTION
FULL THICKNESS GRAFT – HARVESTING • PATTERN • CORRECT WAY UP • NOT MIRROR IMAGE • CLOSE DEFECT • PRIMARILY • SPLIT SKIN GRAFT • FLAP • THINNING
WOUND PREPARATION • FAILURE USUALLY RESULTS FROM POOR RECIPRIENT SITE
WOUND PREPARATION • NOT OVER BONE CARTILAGE OR TENDON EXCEPTIONS • MEMBRANOUS BONE • CORTICAL BONE CAN BE DRILLED
WOUND PREPARATION • REMOVE EXPOSED CARTILAGE, REMOVE CRUST & CONTAMINATED TISSUE • DEBRIDE GRANULATION TISSUE OR TREAT WITH HYPERTONIC SALINE.
WOUND PREPARATION GROWING EDGE USUALLY EQUALS READINESS = OR >PH 7.4
WOUND PREPARATION BEWARE STREPTOCOCCUS RADIATION NECROTIC TISSUE HAEMORRHAGE
SPLIT SKIN APPLICATION • IMMEDIATE • DELAYED • OPEN • CLOSED
IMMOBILISATION MUST ADHERE TO ALLOW BLOOD VESSEL INGROWTH
IMMOBILISATION • BOLUS TIEOVER • STENT - ? HISTORICAL PRECEEDED BY EVACUATION OF ANY REMAINING BLOOD & IRRIGATION
IMMOBILISATION OPEN • CO-OPERATIVE PATIENTS • IDEAL BED • ABLE TO EVACUATE FLUID POST-OPERATIVELY
HEALING OR TAKE • CUT • GRAFT GOES PALE • VESSELS CONTRACT • SQUEEZE OUT BLOOD
HEALING OR TAKE TAKE TURNS PINK BLANCHES ON PRESSURE AT 3-4 DAYS
HEALING OR TAKE NECROSIS ALL SUPERFICIAL ? WAIT
HEALING OR TAKE FAILURE DUE TO INADEQUATE BED (POOR VASCULARISATION) HAEMATOMA OR SEROMA MOVEMENT INFECTION
HEALING OR TAKE FAILURE DUE TO • .TECHNICAL ERROR • UPSIDE DOWN GRAFT • THICKNESS OF GRAFT • STORAGE
DONOR SITE HEALING • FTG – PRIMARY CLOSURE • SSG – EPITHELIALISATION FROM REMNANTS OF DERMIS, THEREFORE THIN GRAFTS HEAL QUICKER, THICK GRAFTS TEND TO HAVE HYPERTROPHIC SCARS.
STORAGE ON TULLE GRAS FOLDED UPON ITSELF REFRIGERATED AT 3C IN MOIST SALINE CAN BE STORED ON DONOR SITE AND USED WITHIN FIVE DAYS
BIOLOGY • TAKE DEPENDS ON ACQUISITION OF NUTRIENTS • DISPOSAL OF WASTE PRODUCTS • IMMUNOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP
BIOLOGY • IMBIBITION RAPID SERUM UPTAKE BY GRAFT • INOSCULATION 3-4 DAYS – SLOW FLOW DUE TO COUPLING AND INGROWTH OF VESSELS
BIOLOGY CELLULAR HYPERPLASIA • EPIDERMAL HYPERPLASIA 1ST TWO WEEKS • SCALING AND CRUSTING • 1ST WEEK 7-10 TIMES THICKNESS • DERMAL FIBROBLAST PROLIFERATE MATURATION OF GRAFT • MATURATION OCCURS OVER 12 MONTHS
CHANGES CONTRACTIONS DUE TO: • MYOFIBROBLASTS ? IN BED • FTG – INHIBITS MYOFIBROBLASTS
PIGMENTARY CHANGES • YELLOW BROWN – BUTTOCKS & ABDOMEN • NECK & POST-AURICULAR – RUDDY COMPLEXION • SSG OFTEN DARKER
PIGMENTARY CHANGES DECREASED DARKNESS • BY DECREASED EXPOSURE IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS • SERIAL DERMABRASION • CHEMICAL PEEL • LASER
EPITHELIAL APPENDAGES • FTG’S – HAIR AND SWEAT GLANDS • SOME SWEAT GLANDS MAY REMAIN IN SSG’S • SEBACEOUS GLANDS CAN REGROW IN A SSG
DURABILITY & GROWTH • DEPENDS ON THICKNESS • INNERVATION • FTG BETTER THAN SSG - SLOWER
Composite grafts • Cartilage /skin • Dermofat • Cartilage/Bone
Composite grafts: Donor Sites • CARTILAGE /SKIN • Nose • Ear
Composite grafts: Donor Sites • SKIN /MUSCLE • Eyelid • Lip
Composite grafts: Donor Sites • CARTILAGE/BONE • Rib
Composite grafts: Uses • Nose • Ear • Eyelid • Lip • Filling
BONE • CORTICAL • CANCELLOUS
BONE: Donor Sites • CORTICAL • SKULL • RADIUS • ULNA • ILIAC CREST