Use of glycerol-preserved skin in plastic surgery. Discussion

It is not always possible to effect immediate closure of wounds and patients' wounds are therefore exposed to risks of desication and infection. In the Plastic Surgery Department, Zuider Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, we have used glycerolized allogeneic donor as a biological dressing in four patients; a polytrauma patient with a compound fracture of the left lower leg; a diabetic with necrotizing fasciitis; a patient with a cat bite on the lower leg, infected with Pasteurella multocida, and a child with large congenital naevi