Evaluation of Human Amniotic Membrane as a Wound Dressing for Split-Thickness Skin-Graft Donor Sites

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                    Postoperative day</td><td align="center" colspan="2">Integrity of basement membrane in wounds </td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="center" colspan="2">treated with</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="center">Human amniotic membrane </td><td align="center">Polyurethane foil</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">5</td><td align="center">±</td><td align="center">±</td></tr><tr><td align="left">7</td><td align="center">±</td><td align="center">±</td></tr><tr><td align="left">10</td><td align="center">+</td><td align="center">±</td></tr><tr><td align="left">20</td><td align="center">+</td><td align="center">+</td></tr><tr><td align="left">40</td><td align="center">+</td><td align="center">+</td></tr><tr><td align="left">60</td><td align="center">+</td><td align="center">+</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>Basement membrane (±) partly observable; (+) complete.<br/></td></tr></table>

Integrity of basement membrane in split-thickness skin-graft donor sites treated with human amniotic membrane or with polyurethane foil (evaluated by immunohistochemical staining with laminin antibody). 

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Table 4: Evaluation of Human Amniotic Membrane as a Wound Dressing for Split-Thickness Skin-Graft Donor Sites 