Evaluation of the safety and healing potential of a fibroin-aloe gel film for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.

Objective: This study aimed to develop a wound dressing prepared from the blending of silkworm fibroin and aloe gel extract for use in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs).

Methods: Fibroin extracted from silkworm cocoons and aloe gel extract were dissolved in deionised water. pH levels were then adjusted with lactic acid solution.

Pilot Clinical Evaluation of PoreSkin: A Human Acellular Dermal Matrix in Burn Scars.

Background: An extensive full-thickness wound need a graft, sometime very large. However, donor sites are often limited. Dermal substitutes are among the tissue-engineered products applied to clinical use.

Vigorous wound irrigation followed by subcuticular skin closure in children with perforated appendicitis.

Background: Although various protocols for the treatment of children with perforated appendicitis have been established, no one has cited incisional wound irrigation in detail.

Material And Method: The records of 69 children undergoing appendectomy for perforated appendicitis between 2004 and 2006 were reviewed. Wound irrigation prior to skin closure using 1-2 liters of normal saline was routinely performed in every case.