Small amounts of excess autograft are commonly harvested during burn procedures, and typically these are discarded. However, the resources of a local skin bank may be used to preserve this tissue for a later autologous use. This has been a routine practice in our institution and we feel that it has impacted favorably on patient care. In this paper we report 42 consecutive applications of autologous frozen skin and illustrate the technique with a case report.
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aDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
bHarvard Medical School, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston, USA
Correspondence should be addressed to: R. L. Sheridan, md, Assistant Chief of Staff, Shriners Burns Institute Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Tel.: 617-371-4713; Fax: 617-396-8936
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