Immediate care of crush injuries and compartment syndromes with the split-thickness skin excision.

Prospective evaluation of the one-stage procedure in 32 patients who suffered from 37 severe friction-avulsion injuries was carried out. Most injuries (81%) were in the lower extremity. Split-thickness skin excision was used for immediate diagnosis of flap vascularity and wound coverage.

Toxic epidermal necrolysis associated with acute cholestatic viral hepatitis A.

A 35-year-old man with obvious hepatitis A (HA) developed toxic epidermal necrolysis, which, we suggest, may have been a direct result of the infection with HA virus.

Crush injuries of the foot with compartment syndrome: immediate one-stage management.

Severe crush injuries with compartment syndrome were treated in five patients by an immediate one-stage procedure. This procedure included the assessment of skin flap viability with accurate debridement of devascularized tissues. It was performed according to the split-thickness skin excision technique.