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Experience in repair utilizing artificial skin for exposed bone surfaces

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PELNAC (Kowa Company, Tokyo, Japan) is an improved artificial skin for grafting, based on that developed by Yannas and Burke in 1980. It consists of two layers of slightly antigenic atelocollagen sponge and silicon film. The repair of exposed bone surface is accomplished by utilizing artificial skin. There have been reports of 13 cases of bone exposure wounds repaired with artificial skin in which secondary skin grafts were accomplished. Eleven of 13 cases were healed, and the method was considered easy and convenient.

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine and Teikyo University, 3-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Fax: +81-559-48-5088, , , , , , JP

    M. Mizunuma, A. Yanai, H. Seno & S. Hirabayashi

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  1. M. Mizunuma
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Received: 30 September 1998 / Accepted: 26 August 1999

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Mizunuma, M., Yanai, A., Seno, H. et al. Experience in repair utilizing artificial skin for exposed bone surfaces. E J Plastic Surg 23, 305–308 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002380000166

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