#skin grafts

[toothpickalpha]

For day #8, I'd like to do William Vicarage. He was another severely burned man at Jutland. This is a particularly revolutionary case because it he was the first patient to receive the Tubed Pedical, which if you don't know, was a skin graft invented by Harold Gillies. It's similar to the traditional flap, but it's stitched into a tube shape before being attached to the sight. This increases blood flow and diminishes the risk of infection. In Vicarages case, two V like grafts were taken from his chest and placed onto his cheeks, as seen in the first picture. The poor man had no lips or eyelids, and it took many surgeries and grafts to get him functional again, but as you can see In the last picture with him as an old man, he was infact returned to his former self, and lived a long and happy life.

[heardatmedschool]

“There’s no better graft than autograft.”

Plastic surgeon

[bpod-bpod]

Fix Skin

Our skin is a deceptively complex material, delicate but strong, protective but permeable. An ideal artificial skin substitute for wound healing must support blood vessel growth, have antibacterial properties, and be sufficiently porous for air and moisture exchange. A new approach has developed a scaffold to grow such tissue-engineered material by incorporating a glass-ceramic onto electrospun nanofibres made of chitosan – a sugar from shellfish outer skeletons – and gelatin (pictured). The scaffold was also laced with silver, which provides antibacterial properties, and was found to be compatible with the body and blood, and promoted cell growth. Connective cells (pink) fully attached and spread over the scaffold, and researchers then treated wounds on mice. The scaffolds showed good vessel and protein growth, and even supported the regeneration of glands and hair follicles, which means this approach may help wounds repair without leaving a scar.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Esmaeel Sharifi and colleagues

Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Basic Health Sciences Institute, Shahrekord University of Medical Science; Dept of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences; School of Chemistry, Damghan University, Iran

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, July 2022

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[kingsid]

New 3 D printing can print skin directly to onto wounds. Still at experimental stage on rats

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Eastern Pen Felons Set Up Skin Bank'," Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1943. Page 27. --- A "skin bank," believed the first in the country, has been organized at Eastern Penitentiary, Dr. Herbert M. Goddard, chairman of the prison's board of trustees, announced yesterday.

He said he hoped to contact physicians and officials in other penitentiaries throughout the country in a program to establish similar skin banks in other prisons.

Dr. Goddard disclosed that 50 long-term convicts at Eastern Penitentiary have been typed, found physically fit and are ready to give donations of skin whenever they are needed, he said.

A possibility of the bank, Dr. Goddard said, is that it may provide skin for service men who have suffered severe burns.

The bank is an outgrowth of recent appeals to convicts to give skin to children who have been badly burned. Three long-term convicts volunteered for grafting operations which were declared "entirely successful."

Dr. Alma Dea Morani, plastic surgeon, who made the first call for volunteers at that time, assisted in setting up the bank.

[evatast]

Classification of skin grafts

[cemeterything]

i should talk about my eldritch horror mech pilot ocs sometime... one of them is literally rotting alive lol

[princehoneytea]

(oc) a closed species on th called amoebuds is letting people make characters so i made a Thang

[hachama]

Daaaayuuum

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[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[palecryptid]

i just think these two are a perfect fit for That One Pose. 🫶

[poppy5991]

Natsuo: I saw that crazy doctor is finally going to trial. That’s a relief. What a fraud.

Dabi: Yeah, he’s a mad genius or whatever. He’s the one who sowed me up like this.

Natsuo, a medical resident: …

Dabi: What?

Natsuo: You know…skin grafts are a thing. That’s what anyone sane would have done.

Dabi: Are you saying I was medical malpracticed?

[tarnussy]

Godrick the Grafted for Soulstober by Charoncreates Artist's Twitter & Carrd permission to share was granted by the artist

[secondbeatsongs]

I love being someone's science experiment

[transmascpetewentz]

Good luck getting that rubber dick sewn on, freak

are you trying to imply that my skin is made of rubber?

[transexualbutchfagdyke]

people who believed McDonald's smear campaign about that elderly woman who got 3rd degree burns from their coffee make my blood boil. STOP BLAMING HER STOP BLAMING HER ITS NOT HER FAULT!!!!!!!!!!