Skin Grafting Cases by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for The Treatment of Skin Tumors and Instractable Cutaneous Ulcers

The most common causes of skin graft loss are hematoma, infection, or shear. To promote close contact between the graft and the wound, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has been recently used particularly when a skin graft must be placed over an uneven wound bed surface. Hence, through a chart review of medical records from January 2015 to December 2017, we evaluated the effectiveness of NPWT as a coadjuvant treatment for 44 cases of surgical wounds of various body sites. Accordingly, our study suggests that the use of NPWT is a promising tool in skin grafting for the treatment of skin tumors and intractable cutaneous ulcers on the curved body parts. Further studies must be done to clarify the ideal conditions of performing NPWT in parallel with skin grafting on the wounds in difficult recipient wound beds