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Split skin transplantation. Fig. 1: Fresh removal and inserted graft.

Fig. 2 a: Deep ulceration of the lower leg in the sense of a postthrombotic leg ulcer in chronic venous insufficiency, which appears punched out, is as wide as the hand and reaches up to the periosteum of the tibia.

Split skin transplantation. Fig. 2 b: Skin condition 2 years after wound conditioning and free transplantation of a Thiersch split skin flap not fixed by sutures, followed by a compression bandage and splinting. Continuous lymph drainage.

Fig. 3: Keloid formation after split skin removal from the thigh.

Split skin transplantation. Fig. 4 Patch phenomenon. defect coverage by means of split skin flaps from the supraclavicular region after basal cell carcinoma removal at the bridge of the nose. Surgical errors: unfavourable donor region (better preauricular) and flap thickness (better full skin), incorrect suture technique (better not constricting backstitch suture).

Fig. 5: Mesh graftgraft in the zygomatica et infraorbitalis region to cover the defect after removal of a malignant melanoma in a 9-year-old boy with xeroderma pigmentosum.

Fig. 6: Split skingrafting.