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Skin Grafting

Surgical Procedure

Skin grafting is a type of graft surgery involving the transplantation of skin without a defined circulation, with the transplanted tissue itself called a skin graft. It is used to treat extensive injury or trauma, burn wounds, significant skin loss from infection such as necrotizing fasciitis, and defects left after the removal of skin cancer, typically following surgical debridement of damaged tissue; grafting shortens treatment and hospitalization time while improving the functional and cosmetic outcome of the affected area. There are two main types by thickness: partial-thickness grafts, the more commonly used type, take a thin layer of skin from an unaffected area, while full-thickness grafts remove skin down to the subcutaneous fat and carry a higher rejection risk but leave a smaller donor-site scar and typically cause less donor-site pain during healing.

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Origin Year
1869 1
Reverdin's pinch graft is the earliest dated named procedure in the modern surgical era; the Ebers Papyrus of ancient Egypt describes xenografting far earlier but with no date attached.
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Standard of Care 1
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1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section, mid-to-late 19th century paragraph
    More modern uses of skin grafting were described in the mid-to-late 19th century, including Reverdin's use of the pinch graft in 1869
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_grafting, lead section
    Skin grafting, a type of graft surgery, involves the transplantation of skin without a defined circulation.
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When was the pinch graft first used?

Reverdin's pinch graft, in 1869.

The Wikipedia history of skin grafting says more modern uses of skin grafting were described in the mid-to-late 19th century, including Reverdin's use of the pinch graft in 1869. Skin grafting is the transplantation of skin without a defined circulation.
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