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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-17
pubmed:abstractText
Five children who suffered burns clinically regarded as full skin thickness loss were grafted with cultured allogeneic skin from newborn prepuce. The wounds had remained open and infected without healing for about 20 days before the patients were received in the burn unit. To avoid losing surviving deep epidermal cells the wounds were débrided but not deeply excised and, a few days before allografting, they were washed with isodine solution and sterile water, and treated with silvadene cream application. All children received 76 cultured allografts of about 60 cm2 each. After allografting, the wounds were epithelized in 7-10 days and the allogeneic grafted skin began desquamation suggesting that the allograft did not 'take' permanently but was replaced by the newly formed skin. On the other hand, since allografting is an adequate therapy to provide early temporary coverage in extensively burned patients, we developed conditions for banking cultured skin to make it available for immediate use. The conditions described allow banking of the cultured grafts for 15-20 days with retention of clonal growth ability similar to that of unstored epithelia. The results show that cultured epidermal cells obtained from human newborn foreskin, when used as allografts for coverage of full skin or deep partial skin thickness burns, allow rapid epithelization of the burn wounds.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0305-4179
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Use of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes for allografting burns and conditions for temporary banking of the cultured allografts.
pubmed:affiliation
Hospital Pediátrico de Tacubaya, Mexico City Government, Col. Tacubaya.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't