Repair of soft tissue defects with artificial dermis in 20 cases / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

In order to study and appraise the application of artificial dermis in repairing skin defect or organization damage, 20 patients underwent artificial dermis transplantation at the Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital from January 2008 to April 2009 were collected. Patients with skin damage or depth portion organization (tendon, joint and bone appears externally) was perform debridement and artificial dermis transplantation, followed by split thickness autoskin transplantation. The survival of artificial dermis and split thickness autoskin was observed. After transplantation, the depth portion organization of patients were covered efficiently, all grafts survived without obvious scar proliferation. The results demonstrated that the prompt application of artificial dermis can reduce the surgery risk, relieve the surgery to damage, and reduce the scar production in repairing organization damage or depth portion organization expose.