Pre-vascularized stem cell sheets may improve split-thickness skin grafts
A new technique for combining pre-vascularized sheets of dermal stem cells with split-thickness skin grafts (STSG) may improve the treatment of large, full-thickness burn wounds, according to findings published in Theranostics (2017; 7(1):117–131). Researchers from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., and First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China noted in the paper that combining STSG with a dermal substitute has previously been