What Is a Donor Graft?
During a Split-Thickness Skin Graft, Your Surgeon Will Remove a Thin Layer of Skin from 1 Part of Your Body (Donor Site) and Use It to Close the Surgical Site...
During a split-thickness skin graft, your surgeon will remove a thin layer of skin from 1 part of your body (donor site) and use it to close the surgical site that needs to be covered (recipient site). You may have a split-thickness skin graft if you lost a large area of skin due to an infection, burn, or surgery.
What are donor grafts?
A skin graft is a surgical procedure in which an area of skin that has been damaged to the point of being unable to repair itself is replaced with healthy skin. The healthy skin is usually removed from one area of a person's body and transplanted to the damaged area, though skin from a donor can be used in some cases.
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What are the three types of grafts?
- Autograft-using the patient's own skin.
- Allograft-using skin obtained from another person.
- Xenograft-free skin grafts obtained from a non-human source (usually a pig)
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