The Thenar Crease Skin Graft: A Novel Addition to “Camouflage” Grafts of the Hand

We present a novel technique of harvesting full-thickness skin grafts from the thenar crease and report the outcome of our cases. We provide further insights to adapt the technique to a variety of clinical scenarios—degloving injuries and shaving injuries of the finger including subcomplete pulp skin loss. Graft size is up to 75 mm by 10 mm, with tension-free donor site closure. We further report the operative experience, functional and esthetic outcome. The technique is fast, versatile, and provides large surface areas of good quality glabrous skin in a single-stage procedure. It will sit well in the armamentarium of the hand surgeon.

Source: Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery - May 22, 2020 Category: Surgery Tags: Techniques Source Type: research