Publications by authors named "Rodrigo Velasco"

Objective: Dermal grafting after secondary wound healing constitutes the mainstay of management in cold injury tissue defects, displacing the use of local flaps. We present an experimental study in which the following treatments for frostbite defects are compared: guided wound healing, partial-thickness skin grafts and cutaneous flaps, which by definition posses an independent vascular supply.

Material And Methods: A dorsal defect in the rabbit leg was created using a cold injury model.

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