Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . Fig. 132.—Varicose ulcer of leg. Duration twelve years, i. Before grafting. Ambu-atory method. 2. One week after grafting with small deep grafts. 3. Five months aftergrafting. Examination of the patient five years after grafting showed no tendency torecurrence. The healing was stable and the individual grafts were still plainly Fig. 133.—Ulcerof the leg following an infection. Duration six weeks. Healed bysmall deep grafts.—i. Before grafting. 2. Six weeks after grafting. The ambulatorytreatment was used in this case and the patient cont
Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . Fig. 132.—Varicose ulcer of leg. Duration twelve years, i. Before grafting. Ambu-atory method. 2. One week after grafting with small deep grafts. 3. Five months aftergrafting. Examination of the patient five years after grafting showed no tendency torecurrence. The healing was stable and the individual grafts were still plainly Fig. 133.—Ulcerof the leg following an infection. Duration six weeks. Healed bysmall deep grafts.—i. Before grafting. 2. Six weeks after grafting. The ambulatorytreatment was used in this case and the patient continued his occupation, only returningto the hospital for dressings. 192 PLASTIC SCEGERY grafting was required to fill the areas not covered. In every case thatfailed several graftings were done but without result. That several ofthese wounds were subsequently grafted in the hospital wdthout success,would warrant the presumption that our failure was due to the ulceritself, rather than to the fact that the patient was not kept at rest. I feel confident that the percentage of takes would have been con-siderably larger, had situation, etiology and other points been carefullyconsidered in our selection of cases for this series, but in order to testthe procedure, ulcers in many situations and of varying etiology weregrafted. As might be expected, the ulcers on the feet and legs
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