Types of skin grafts to cover chronic wounds: which one should you choose?
The use of skin grafts is a traditional technique to promote the healing of acute and chronic wounds. There are different types of skin...
Ulcerated necrobiosis lipoidica: what is it and how should it be managed?
Necrobiosis lipoidica is a condition that we will always have to include if we list the causes of "atypical" leg ulcers. In fact, in...
Sclerotherapy in Venous Ulcers: The Sooner the Better
Sclerotherapy is the most widely used endovenous procedure as an alternative to surgery in patients with venous ulcers. As it is a minimally invasive...
Punch grafting: a classic back in fashion
The 8th Congress of the SEHER (Spanish Wound Healing Society) has just been held in Madrid https://www.congresoheridas.com/index.php/programa. Once again, this scientific meeting has been...
Have you ever heard of the topical use of sevoflurane in wounds?
If you have never heard of this alternative treatment for painful ulcers, surely while reading this post you may think of more than one...
How to close large ulcers after mild trauma in the elderly?
How many times have we asked ourselves this question, health professionals, caregivers and, of course, the people who suffer them on their own skin?
Without...
How to promote healing in ulcers secondary to pyoderma gangrenosum?
If I had to choose a single sentence to answer this question, it would undoubtedly be "with an adequate anti-inflammatory strategy and, if necessary,...
Which dressing should I choose to cover the skin graft donor site?
"How do you cover the donor site?" This is a question that always arises when I talk about the punch grafting technique that we...
Why punch graft attachment has not been achieved?
This is a question that you will have asked more than once all of you who are performing this technique:)
As we have commented in...
Differences between epidermal and dermo-epidermal punch grafts
Autologous epidermal and dermo-epidermal punch grafts are two of the different options available to promote epithelialization of recalcitrant wounds despite adequate conventional treatment. As...