A skin graft is a surgical procedure that involves removing healthy skin from one area of the body to another. The healthy skin replaces damaged or missing skin resulting from trauma, burns, and ...

Skin grafting involves surgically removing skin from one area of the body and transplanting it to another. A skin graft may be needed for many medical reasons, including loss of skin due to injury, ...

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...

A full-thickness skin graft is a procedure that’s used to treat injuries and heal surgical wounds. Grafts are typically taken from healthy skin elsewhere on the body and placed over the damaged or ...

Not all wounds require surgery. The size and depth of the patient’s wound will determine if they need surgery and which surgery is most appropriate. The majority of burn surgery procedures are skin ...

Surgery to remove (excise) melanoma removes the cancer and a border of healthy tissue. In the "Area of excision" picture: The inner circle represents the melanoma and healthy tissue that are excised.