Young Hwan Choi, Young Soon Cho, Jong Ho Lee, Yanghwan Choi, Soo Young Noh, Seungchoon Park, Changmin Sung, Jin Kyu Lim, Jongdae Kim, Jae Jun Shin, Banseok Yang, Jiyun Jeong, Huan Chun, Kwang Jo Kim
Cadaver skin is used for temporary wound covering, but there is insufficient evidence regarding its clinical usefulness in patients with major burns. We aimed to analyze the effect of cadaveric skin allograft on mortality rates in patients with burns involving > 30% of total body surface area (TBSA). Our study included 1282 patients with > 30% of TBSA burned admitted to four hospitals in Korea between June 1, 2008 and December 31, 2016. Of these, 698 patients underwent cadaver skin allograft (cadaver group), and 584 were treated with conventional treatment (non-cadaver group)...
December 2018: Cell and Tissue Banking