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Table 1 Time of the treatment for patient

From: The use of a skin-stretching device combined with vacuum sealing drainage for closure of a large skin defect: a case report

Time after admission

6 hours

3 days

12 days

21 days

39 days

Treatment

Debridement

Debridement

Skin stretching and VSD

Skin stretching and VSD

The stretched skin margins were interrupted sutured

Result

The wounds were sutured with vacuum sealing drainage and stick membrane

The necrotic muscles were excised and wounds were interrupted sutured

The stretched skin margins were interrupted sutured

Wound was thoroughly irrigated and the stretched skin margins were interrupted sutured

Wound approximately 1.0 cm × 0.8 cm without infection. Granulation tissue is healthy. Patient is ambulatory

Wound Size

40 cm × 35 cm

12 cm × 40 cm

5 cm × 38 cm

4.5 cm × 35 cm

1.0 cm × 0.8 cm

  1. VSD vacuum sealing drainage