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[Current place of cultured epithelial autografts in the management of massive burns and future prospects: Literature review]. ANN CHIR PLAST ESTH 2020; 66:10-18. [PMID: 33380355 DOI: 10.1016/j.anplas.2020.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cultured Epithelial Autografts (CEAs), developed at the end of the 1970s from in vitro culture amplification of keratinocytes, have led to a therapeutic revolution in the treatment of major burns. The areas of improvement of the cultures initially involved the manufacturing processes (culture media, support matrices, etc.) and then clinical applications (use of a largely expanded allogeneic or autologous dermal bed). These advances have enabled burn centers (BC) using CEAs to obtain very satisfactory percentages of graft integration and survival of major burns patients. However, since CEAs are not without major drawbacks (fragility, high rate of infection, high cost, unstable scars), these pitfalls have restricted their use worldwide. As of 2014, CEAs produced by Genyzme Tissue Repair are no longer available in Europe, which has considerably reduced an indispensable therapeutic arsenal for severe and extensive burns. To overcome these therapeutic limitations, current research is focusing on techniques combining surgery, tissue engineering and cell therapy. The advent of regenerative medicine, based on the use of stem cells, in particular mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), can contribute to an improvement in the management of these massively burned patients (optimization of the environmental medium, attenuation of the systemic inflammatory response and the immunosuppressive effects of the burn, acceleration of tissue regeneration, etc.). Cell therapy, therefore, offers alternatives to CEAs, which must imperatively retain their place in the therapeutic arsenal, namely an effective emergency coverage technique that can be improved.
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Malara MM, Blackstone BN, Baumann ME, Bailey JK, Supp DM, Powell HM. Cultured Epithelial Autograft Combined with Micropatterned Dermal Template Forms Rete Ridges In Vivo. Tissue Eng Part A 2020; 26:1138-1146. [DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2020.0090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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- Megan M. Malara
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Li Z, Maitz P. Cell therapy for severe burn wound healing. BURNS & TRAUMA 2018; 6:13. [PMID: 29854856 PMCID: PMC5971426 DOI: 10.1186/s41038-018-0117-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cell therapy has emerged as an important component of life-saving procedures in treating burns. Over past decades, advances in stem cells and regenerative medicine have offered exciting opportunities of developing cell-based alternatives and demonstrated the potential and feasibility of various stem cells for burn wound healing. However, there are still scientific and technical issues that should be resolved to facilitate the full potential of the cellular devices. More evidence from large, randomly controlled trials is also needed to understand the clinical impact of cell therapy in burns. This article aims to provide an up-to-date review of the research development and clinical applications of cell therapies in burn wound healing and skin regeneration.
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- Zhe Li
- Burns Unit, Concord Hospital, Concord, New South Wales 2139 Australia
- Skin Laboratory, NSW Statewide Burns Service, Concord, New South Wales Australia
- Discipline of Surgery, University of Sydney Medical School, Camperdown, New South Wales Australia
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- Burns Unit, Concord Hospital, Concord, New South Wales 2139 Australia
- Skin Laboratory, NSW Statewide Burns Service, Concord, New South Wales Australia
- Discipline of Surgery, University of Sydney Medical School, Camperdown, New South Wales Australia
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Dragúňová J, Kabát P, Koller J, Jarabinská V. Experience gained during the long term cultivation of keratinocytes for treatment of burns patients. Cell Tissue Bank 2011; 13:471-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s10561-011-9275-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2011] [Accepted: 07/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hu X, Yu W, Sun H, Wang X, Han C. Epidermal cells delivered for cutaneous wound healing. J DERMATOL TREAT 2010; 23:224-37. [DOI: 10.3109/09546634.2010.495741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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James SE, Booth S, Dheansa B, Mann DJ, Reid MJ, Shevchenko RV, Gilbert PM. Sprayed cultured autologous keratinocytes used alone or in combination with meshed autografts to accelerate wound closure in difficult-to-heal burns patients. Burns 2009; 36:e10-20. [PMID: 19303712 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2006] [Accepted: 11/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- S Elizabeth James
- Blond McIndoe Research Foundation, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex. RH19 3DZ, UK.
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Bannasch H, Stark GB, Knam F, Horch RE, Föhn M. Decellularized dermis in combination with cultivated keratinocytes in a short- and long-term animal experimental investigation. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2008; 22:41-9. [PMID: 18181972 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2007.02326.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Decellularized human dermis as a potentially ideal scaffold for dermal substitution in severe burns was examined in a two-staged animal experiment. In an initial step, an in vitro generated composite graft consisting of human keratinocytes and decellularized dermis (AlloDerm) was transplanted onto nude mice in a short-term trial (n = 20, 14 days). Subsequently, a combined one-step grafting of full thickness wounds with both decellularized dermis (in part preincubated with fibroblasts) and cultivated autologous keratinocytes as a cell suspension in fibrin glue was done in a long-term porcine animal model (n = 10, 6 months). In both series, macroscopic wound healing was evaluated by planimetry. Histological investigations included morphological as well as immunohistochemical parameters. The short-term study showed both successful integration of the composite grafts and reduction of wound contraction compared with the control group (epithelial grafts). The long-term porcine study displayed reduced myofibroblast formation and contraction in the wounds that had been treated with fibroblast-preincubated dermis. After 4 weeks, a decline of the structural integrity of the dermal matrix could be noticed. The utility of decellularized dermis as template for both dermal reconstitution and keratinocyte delivery vehicle was shown. The closure of full thickness wounds by a single-step combination of an autologous keratinocyte fibrin sealant suspension and acellular dermis in a pig animal model could be shown. Incorporation of fibroblasts led to reduced wound contraction but could not prevent the loss of dermal integrity. The engineered 'skin' remained viable and stable over a period of 6 months.
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- H Bannasch
- Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany.
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Replacement of skin has been one of the most challenging aims for surgeons ever since the introduction of skin grafts in 1871. It took more than one century until the breakthrough of Rheinwald and Green in 1975 that opened new possibilities of skin replacement. The combination of cell culture and polymer chemistry finally led to the field of tissue engineering. Many researchers all over the world have been fascinated by the chance of creating a skin-like substitute ex vivo without any further harm to the patients, especially those with massive burns. Many different approaches to create new substitutes and further improvements in genetical and stem cell research led to today's skin equivalents. But still, the "gold standard" for wound coverage is the autologous split-thickness skin graft. Future research will aim at originating biologically and physiologically equal skin substitutes for the treatment of severe burns and chronic ulcers.
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Cultured epithelial autograft (CEA) in burn treatment: three decades later. Burns 2007; 33:405-13. [PMID: 17400392 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2006] [Accepted: 11/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Methods for handling burn wounds have changed in recent decades and increasingly aggressive surgical approach with early tangential excision and wound closure is being applied. Split-thickness skin (STSG) autografts are the "gold standard" for burn wound closure and remain the mainstay of treatment to provide permanent wound coverage and achieve healing. In some massively burned patients, however, the burns are so extensive that donor site availability is limited. Fortunately, considerable progress has been made in the culture of human keratinocytes and it is now possible to obtain large amounts of cultured epithelium from a small skin biopsy within 3-4 weeks. Questions related to optimal cell type for culture, culture techniques, transplantation of confluent sheets or non-confluent cells, immediate and late final take, carrier and transfer modality, as well as final outcome, ability to generate an epithelium after transplantation, and scar quality are still not fully answered. Progress accomplished since Reinwald and Green first described their keratinocyte culture technique is reviewed.
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Over the last 20 years, confluent sheets of cultured epithelial autograft have been used for patients with major burns. Problems with the lack of "take" and long-term durability, as well as the time delay to produce such grafts, have led to the development of delivery systems to transfer keratinocytes to the wound bed. This review article describes the problems of using cultured epithelial autograft and the advantages of using preconfluent keratinocytes. Despite the numerous delivery systems that have been reported, most studies are limited to animal wound bed models. There are a few small clinical studies that have demonstrated enhanced healing using mainly subjective methods. There is a need for controlled, randomized clinical trials to prove the efficacy of keratinocyte delivery systems. Proposals for the use of this technology are made.
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- D L Chester
- Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Selly Oak, Selly Oak, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Fayman MS, Potgieter E. The pubic area skin and dermal graft donor site. Plast Reconstr Surg 2004; 113:995-8. [PMID: 15108897 DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000105046.28177.a9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Moshe Shlomo Fayman
- Rosebank Clinic and the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Cultivated epithelial autografts as multilayered, thin sheets represent a common standard in clinically applied tissue engineering substitutes, outnumbering all experimental alternatives. However, the unsatisfying short- and long-term results concerning mechanical stability and scarring require alternatives. The cultivation and transplantation of cultured autologous keratinocytes as a single cell suspension in a fibrin matrix, combined with allogenic skin grafting, has been investigated extensively in athymic nude mice. Wounds can be reliably reepithelialized after a cultivation period of only 14 days. Moreover, the successful combination of keratinocyte fibrin suspension and acellular dermis in an attempt to regenerate full thickness skin defects in a pig model has been demonstrated. The usefulness of subconfluently cultured keratinocytes-which can be harvested very early and are easy to handle-is enhanced by cotransplantation with decellularized dermis.
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- H Bannasch
- Abteilung Plastische und Handchirurgie, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Freiburg.
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The coverage of extensive wounds with viable autologous keratinocytes remains the only option of treatment if autologous donor skin is not obtainable. There is evidence that proliferating keratinocytes, as suspended cells or as a single layer, are adequate for wound closure. Understanding keratinocyte-matrix interactions not only allows us to influence keratinocyte outgrowth, adhesion, and migration, but may also guide us to modify matrix molecules for enhancing keratinocyte take. Further approaches may include the generation of genetically manipulated keratinocytes, which allow the use of an off-the-shelf epidermal replacement. As surgeons, our goal is to help burn patients with the best quality of skin in the shortest time possible. As tissue engineers, we have not achieved the goal of a universal skin product. By continually reviewing the options and using them, we can at least use the proper material in the adequate situation. Because of the limited resources, the need for comparisons of clinical effectiveness and cost are ever more important. As anatomy and physiology of engineered skin substitutes improve, they will become more similar to native skin autografts. Improvement of skin substitutes will result from inclusion of additional cell types (eg, melanocytes) and from modifications of culture media and scaffolds. Skin-substitute materials may be able to stimulate regeneration rather than repair, and tissue-engineered skin may match the quality of split-skin autografts, our present gold standard.
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- H Bannasch
- Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79106 Freiburg i. Br., Germany.
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Robins SP, Milne G, Duncan A, Davies C, Butt R, Greiling D, James IT. Increased skin collagen extractability and proportions of collagen type III are not normalized after 6 months healing of human excisional wounds. J Invest Dermatol 2003; 121:267-72. [PMID: 12880417 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In an attempt to identify potential staging markers of effective healing, changes in connective tissue properties were measured in a human skin excisional wound healing model in which tissue was re-excised at intervals up to 6 months after injury. The proportion of collagen III relative to collagen I increased significantly (p<0.001) up to 6 weeks after initial injury and remained elevated up to 6 months, at which time the proportion of collagen III was 70% above baseline values. Extractability of biopsy tissue collagen by pepsin increased significantly throughout the study (baseline, 32.8+/-6.8%; 6 months, 89.1+/-8.9%), with inverse changes in the mature skin cross-link, histidinohydroxylysinonorleucine (baseline, 1.18+/-0.11 mol/mol collagen; 6 months, 0.27+/-0.09 mol/mol collagen). Pyridinoline content increased over the period of the study, although remaining at relatively low concentrations (baseline, 0.037+/-0.011; 6 months, 0.063+/-0.014 mol/mol collagen), and the pyridinoline/deoxypyridinoline ratio was significantly higher (baseline, 3.5+/-0.6; 6 months, 10.3+/-2.2). Elastin content, measured as desmosine cross-links, decreased significantly in the first 3 weeks and continued to decline over the period of study. Overall, the data suggest that remodeling of the wound tissue continues at least up to 6 months after injury. The close inverse correlation between histidinohydroxylysinonorleucine concentrations and extractability by pepsin (r2=0.89, p<0.0001) suggests a causal relationship, consistent with the likely effects of a substantial network of mature, inter-helical bonds in collagen.
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- Simon P Robins
- Matrix Biochemistry, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK.
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It has been estimated that 2 million people per year have burns requiring medical attention in the United States. The available and expert clinicians in dedicated burn centers around the country have cared successfully for these patients and given them a second chance at a functional life. It still behooves current-day plastic surgeons to be knowledgeable and adept in their care, not only because they may be called upon at times to manage some of the smaller acute burns, but also because many of the general principles of burn reconstruction and wound management are relevant to other areas of general plastic surgery. Acute burns should be dealt with like any other major trauma with the ABCs of aggressive resuscitation and airway management. Like any other wound, debridement and nutrition are important (i.e., early escharectomy of the burn wound and enteral nutrition during the hypermetabolic state). Early coverage of the open wound is essential to limit bacterial colonization and prevent infection and to reduce fluid and electrolyte and heat loss. If autografts are not available immediately, temporary coverage with one of the above-mentioned barrier materials should be used. Still, autografts, when available, should be the burn surgeon's first choice. Donor sites may be reharvested to provide more autograft than was anticipated with large-percentage TBSA burns. Physicians should keep in mind the advantages (and disadvantages) of using the scalp and back. As far as research and technological advances in the area of plastic surgery, burn surgery may be the most progressive, with the evolution of biologic tissue-engineered skin substitutes and the research of growth factors in healing. Further improvements in tissue engineering and technology should result in even more effective skin substitutes and hence better functional and aesthetic outcomes with economic efficiency in large burns.
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- Ryan A Stanton
- Division of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, USA
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Berthod F, Germain L, Li H, Xu W, Damour O, Auger FA. Collagen fibril network and elastic system remodeling in a reconstructed skin transplanted on nude mice. Matrix Biol 2001; 20:463-73. [PMID: 11691586 DOI: 10.1016/s0945-053x(01)00162-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Wound healing of deep and extensive burns can induce hypertrophic scar formation, which is a detrimental outcome for skin functionality. These scars are characterized by an impaired collagen fibril organization with fibril bundles oriented parallel to each other, in contrast with a basket weave pattern arrangement in normal skin. We prepared a reconstructed skin made of a collagen sponge seeded with human fibroblasts and keratinocytes and grown in vitro for 20 days. We transplanted it on the back of nude mice to assess whether this reconstructed skin could prevent scar formation. After transplantation, murine blood vessels had revascularized one-third of the sponge thickness on the fifth day and were observed underneath the epidermis at day 15. The reconstructed skin extracellular matrix was mostly made of human collagen I, organized in loosely packed fibrils 5 days after transplantation, with a mean diameter of 45 nm. After 40-90 days, fibril bundles were arranged in a basket weave pattern while their mean diameter increased to 56 nm, therefore exactly matching mouse skin papillary dermis organization. Interestingly, we showed that an elastic system remodeling was started off in this model. Indeed, human elastin deposits were organized in thin fibrils oriented perpendicular to epidermis at day 90 whereas elastic system usually took years to be re-established in human scars. Our reconstructed skin model promoted in only 90 days the remodeling of an extracellular matrix nearly similar to normal dermis (i.e. collagen fibril diameter and arrangement, and the partial reconstruction of the elastic system).
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- F Berthod
- Laboratoire d'Organogenèse Expérimentale, Université Laval, CHA, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, 1050 chemin Sainte-Foy, Québec, QC, Canada G1S 4L8.
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Any split-thickness skin graft donor site is obvious to some degree because of pigment alterations and, at the worst, it can develop hypertrophic scarring. A predictably superior aesthetic result is possible if this site is converted to a full-thickness defect followed by primary closure, because a linear scar is the only residuum. Using a modified tumescent technique, the groin can also be readily used as a split-thickness donor site if a thin graft is preferred; it captures the attributes of an ideal donor site in which pain is diminished, healing rapid, and the scar inconspicuous, just as when it is used as a full-thickness skin graft donor site.
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- G G Hallock
- Division of Plastic Surgery, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA, USA
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Jiao XY, Tanczos E, Dodic T, Voigt M, Haberstroh J, Stark GB. Prefabrication of bilaminar-epithelialized composite flap with tissue expander and cultured keratinocytes. Plast Reconstr Surg 1999; 103:138-44. [PMID: 9915174 DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199901000-00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study investigated the feasibility of prefabrication of a bilaminar-epithelialized flap by using a tissue expander and cultured keratinocytes, for reconstruction of perforate defects in the oral cavity and upper aerodigestive tract. In each of six rats, a 10-ml volume expander was implanted under the inferior epigastric flap and a thin silicon catheter was introduced into periexpander space. Seven days after implantation, 10 x 10(6) cultured keratinocytes, isolated from inbred donor rats, were suspended in fibrin glue and injected into the periexpander space through the catheter (n = 4 of 6). The expansion was started immediately after cell inoculation and lasted at least 3 weeks at the speed of 2 to 3 ml every 5 to 7 days. At the end of expansion, the periexpander space was opened and the capsule around the tissue expander was found to be covered completely with a neoepithelium. Thus, a bilaminar-epithelialized flap based on femoral vessels was elevated and successfully transferred to cover the excisional perforate defect in the oral cavity with the neoepithelial side as inner lining. All flaps treated with 10 x 10(6) cultured keratinocytes survived with complete wound healing during a 1-week follow-up (n = 4 of 6). Both macroscopic and histologic findings demonstrated that a bilaminar-epithelialized composite flap can be fabricated by using a tissue expander and keratinocyte-fibrin glue suspension.
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- X Y Jiao
- Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Germany
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- F Berthod
- Laboratoire d'Organogenèse Expérimentale, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Québec, Canada
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