A variety of techniques, tricks and amendments to meshing skin grafts manually have
already appeared in specialised journals.
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Split-thickness skin grafts are frequently meshed in plastic surgery practice because
of several well-known advantages.
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Whenever the mechanical mesher is not available, the skin graft is usually meshed
by hand, by simply cutting it with a kidney or any solid base as a platform. This
method is time-consuming and impractical; therefore a number of techniques have been
published in an endeavour to discover the best way to mesh a graft without a mechanical
device. These methods consist of:
- 1.Placing the graft directly on the Discard-A-Pad and cutting it;
- 2.Cutting the elevated skin of the graft as it is still attached to its donor site;1
- 3.Incising the donor site before harvesting the graft;2
- 4.Folding the graft over a piece of paper and making alternate cuts;3
- 5.Wrapping the graft around a chest tube and cutting all the layers at one time.4
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References
- An easy technique for manual meshing of split-thickness skin grafts.Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004; 113: 1888-1889
- Meshing a small skin graft.Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004; 113: 465-466
- Method for preparing meshed skin grafts without using skin graft meshers.Plast Reconstr Surg. 1991; 88: 524-526
- An easy and affective method for preparing meshed skin grafts.Plast Reconstr Surg. 2001; 108: 1083-1084
- The mesh skin graft.Plast Reconstr Surg. 1964; 34: 287-292
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Published online: November 07, 2007
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