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Tensile strength of wound is what when ... |
Increases from day 5-30 15-20 percent by 3/52 Healed wound has 80 % of normal never back to full |
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Skin grafts ... when viable |
Split thickness 3-5 days Full thickness 5-7 days |
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Primary and secondary contracture in split and full thickness skin grafts |
Split thickness - low primary high secondary ( once placed on recipient it tends to shrink surgeons know this and account for that ) Full thickness - high primary low secondary Down side of full thickness that donor site now needs a skin graft itself |
