Use skin allograft collected from parent combined with autograft for deep and large burns in children
- Author:
Luong Viet Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
burn
- MeSH:
burns, (Transplantation, Homologous)
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2000;378(4):20-23
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Study on 17 pediatric patients aged from 1 to 12 years of old, 14 boys and 3 girls. Burn-caused agents were dry heat, wet-heat and chemicals. Patients were divided randomly into 2 groups: Group A (Study group) involved 10 patients with mean age of 5 years, average common burn area was 41% of body area and deep burn area was 35% of body area. Group B (control group) included 7 patients with mean age of 6 years. The average common burn area of these patients was 48% of body area and the deep burn area was 34%. In group A, the bacterial infection incidence was lower markedly than group B (p<0.05). P. aeruginosa caused sepsis had highest incidence (66.6%) in patients with positive culture. Skin implantation produced good and moderate results in group A. 10 patients received skin allograft in 16 operations. Mean time survival of skin grafts is 14.92 days.
