Application of a minimally invasive full‐thickness autologous microcolumn skin harvesting device for donor site tissue collection and augmenting wound healing in a porcine wound model
Stephen Smith, Brenda Curtis, Lisa Nicholson, Thomas Koshy, Tyler Max, Brian Prevish, Madeleine Goedegebuure, Gregory Manista, Joshua Tam · 2024
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Description
Stephen Smith and co-authors test a skin harvesting device in a 2024 animal study. The device, the ART System, collects full-thickness microcolumns of a patient's own skin, each very narrow. The study used a pig wound model with full-thickness wounds and grafting over six weeks.
Donor sites from the device healed faster than split-thickness graft donor sites in key measures. New surface growth appeared sooner, and skin structures and collagen rose earlier. Recipient wounds got microcolumns, standard grafts, or no treatment for comparison. Faster donor healing with less harm is the main promise here. Such a tool could widen graft options for burns and hard wounds.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Stephen Smith, Brenda Curtis, Lisa Nicholson, Thomas Koshy, Tyler Max, Brian Prevish, Madeleine Goedegebuure, Gregory Manista, Joshua Tam |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |