[Skin culture--keratinocytes].

Our efforts to cultivate keratinocytes and to use cultivated epidermal grafts which are then transplanted onto deep second- and third-degree burns and donor sites date back in 1987. Our laboratory is now able to provide our intensive care unit with cultured epidermografts as a routine procedure. Furthermore, we have developed a simple method for cryopreservation of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes. So in 1980, a skin bank was set up which provides us with cryopreserved allogenic cultured epidermis. Indications, operative management, and results are presented and accompanied by typical clinical cases.