What is it about?
Vitiligo is a disorder of pigmentation affecting approximately 1% of the world’s population and is characterized by depigmented skin lesions. When medical and light therapy fails, surgery employing skin grafting can be used to treat this disease. In this article an innovative technique has been devised by which we can calculate the amount of skin graft required for surgically treating this disease.
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Why is it important?
This article describes a unique technique of measuring the area of graft required for treating this disease in a patient. This technique can help a dermatosurgeon or a plastic surgeon to exactly get the required amount of skin graft required for the vitiligo surgery.
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Writing this article was a mathematical drill for me. I used the basic concepts of mathematics and field work which we used to draw in the 10th standard. This article will help dermatosurgeons and plastic surgeons in carrying out skin grafting for vitiligo in a better and accurate way.
Dr Tasleem Arif
Dar As Sihha Medical center, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
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This page is a summary of: Calculating area of graft required for vitiliginous areas during split-thickness skin grafting: A simple, accurate, and cost-effective technique, Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery, January 2017, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/jcas.jcas_45_17.
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