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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 51-53 |
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An innovative method of repeated tie-over dressing for fixation of skin graft
Shabeer Ahmad Wani, Ovais Habib, Doaa Andejani, Faris Mugaren, Loai Abdullah Alsalmr
Division of Plastic Surgery, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Shabeer Ahmad Wani
Division of Plastic Surgery, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh - 11525
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0794-9316.178458
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Background: Tie-over dressing is an established method of fixation of skin grafts in areas of body where immobilization is difficult toprevent hematoma and seroma formationin addition to avoid shearing motion of the graft. Traditionally, using multiple silk sutures does this. This is a one-time procedure and refixation is difficult if we need to repeat the procedure.
Methods: We assessed our initial experience with a repeated tie-over dressing method using cap and collar of normal saline bottles used for irrigation and silk suture threads infourpatients over the anterior chest wall. These patients underwent recurrent keloid excision with reconstruction by skin graft and postoperative radiotherapy. After the graft is applied on the floor, tie-over stitches are taken and paraffin gauze is applied over with adequate padding; the tie-over sutures are passed through the collar and the cap is tightened over it to complete the dressing. The cap can be unscrewed easily at any time to inspect the graft and can be easily reapplied in the outpatient department.
Results: The skin graft take in all the patients was complete without any seroma or hematoma. An innovative tie-over dressing that enables simple fixation of the dressing, to maintain proper position of grafts that require repeated fixation, is reported here. |
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