The secondary contracting tendency of free skin grafts; an experimental investigation on animals.

摘要: Summary The writer has sought to make some contribution our knowledge of the secondary contraction free skin grafts, with reference its duration and dependence upon rotation transferred at implantation. Following an analysis anatomical histological premises for elasticity contractility human skin, experimental investigations were conducted into corresponding conditions in rabbit skin. experiments demonstrated that full-thickness grafts reached maximum after one month had subsided two months. manner which graft is rotated when suturing it recipient site seems be immaterial, since growth, on comparison directions right angles each other, was not found inhibited any direction by factor graft.