Skin graft donor site. Healing wound on a patient's left thigh, from which skin was excised and grafted over a leg amputation wound. Skin grafts are p

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Skin graft donor site. Healing wound on a patient's left thigh, from which skin was excised and grafted over a leg amputation wound. Skin grafts are performed when a wound is too large to heal naturally. The skin for grafts is generally taken from the patient themselves, to prevent rejection of the tissue by the immune system.

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