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A. B. VICENCIO, M.D.
Cebu City, Philippines

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1956;63(3):296-298.

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The purpose of this report is not to amplify on the merits and advantages of skin grafting of the radical mastoid cavity, as it is a tried and well-proved procedure, but rather to show a simple way to obtain an ample, resistant, viable graft.

Lempert¹ utilized the small sections of the skin of the posterior auditory canal; House,² skin from the postauricular area; Farrior,³ skin from the thigh; Campbell,⁴ skin from the inner surface of the arm; Myers and Wilf,⁵ skin from the cavum conchae, modifying Lempert's endaural incision.

Skin grafting is time-consuming and tedious and needs an assistant adept in the use of the dermatome. Skin taken from the thigh, arm, or abdomen provides a large graft, as desired, but the denuded area also leaves an undesirable and mutilating scar, especially distasteful to women. Also, success of this graft is not very certain. Skin . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Accepted for publication Dec. 9, 1955.

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