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Surgery

Al-Azhar University

Journal

2021

Burn; Hand; graft Lipofilling

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Lipofilling As An Adjuvant Therapy For Postburn Grafted Hand: Functional And Aesthetic Outcome., Esraa Fathy, Magdy Abd-Almoktader Abdel-Kreem, Mostafa Mikki Mar 2021

Lipofilling As An Adjuvant Therapy For Postburn Grafted Hand: Functional And Aesthetic Outcome., Esraa Fathy, Magdy Abd-Almoktader Abdel-Kreem, Mostafa Mikki

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

Background : Background: Fat transfer is widely used as an adjuvant therapy to achieve the deficiencies faced minor burning regeneration. Aim of the study: The study aimed to represent our experience with autologous fat grafting in improving hand function and cosmesis in cases that undergo skin grafts after burns to the hand dorsum. Patient and methods: A case series study where patients aged 16-60 with post-burn grafted hand contractures, evaluating functional and aesthetic outcomes after a single session of lipofilling; A case series study carried out from May 2019 to August 2020 on twenty patients with post-burn grafted hand contractures. …