Clinical Application of Split-Thickness Skin with Pedicle for Finger Wounds

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Typical 2. (a) A 36-year-old man presented with a skin necrosis of the little finger, (b) excising and debriding the nonviable skin and tissue, (c) incising three sides of the designed skin incision of 8.0 × 1.5 cm, and cutting the split-thickness skin (two-thirds thickness), (d) raising the skin and suturing it to the finger wound, (e) dividing the pedicle on the 10th day, (f) the skin grew very well, although there was some light hyperpigmentation after 5 months, (g) the lamina epithelium thickened slightly, and (h) the function and activity of the finger were satisfactory.

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