Successful Pharmacological Treatment and Treatment of Large Soft-Tissue Ulceration With Split-Thickness Skin Graft in a Chronically Critical Ischemic Leg

Abstract

The authors present the results of preoperative and postoperative prostacyclin analog treatment with skin grafting in a large ulceration of a chronic critical ischemic leg in a man who had lost his contralateral extremity 5 years ago. Healing was uneventful at the 6-month follow-up.

Keywords

chronic critical ischemia skin grafting pharmacological treatment of lower extremity wounds

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