PLASTIC SURGERY OF WOUND DEFECTS WITH FREE GRAFTS AFTER MALIGNANT SKIN TUMORS EXCISION: A PILOT STUDY.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of applying negative pressure bandages (VAC bandage) in patients with malignant skin tumors after closing defects with free skin grafts and to compare it with fixation of skin grafts by the ordinary ointment bandages.

Materials And Methods: 61 patients with malignant skin tumors who underwent surgical treatment at the National Cancer Institute from 2019 to 2023 were included in the study. For the wound defects closure, the split skin grafts were applied in all patients.

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY VERSUS LYMPH NODE OBSERVATION IN MELANOMA PATIENTS.

Objective: evaluating the influence of sentinel lymph node biopsy without following completion lymph node dissection independent on sentinel lymph node status on the outcome in patients with skin melanoma.

Materials And Methods: Three hundred nine patients with a primary skin melanoma were randomly assigned to wide excision of the primary tumor and sentinel lymph node biopsy without following completion lymph-node dissection independent on sentinel lymph node status or to wide excision of skin melanoma. Low-dose interferon was administrated in the adjuvant setting.