Abstract:Background: Fingertip injuries are very common and require a stable and durable cover. The end result after reconstruction must be a painless finger with good aesthetic appearance. Skin loss in fingertip, with or without partial loss of pulp fat, is often managed with a split-thickness skin graft, which causes a poor aesthetic result due to color mismatch of the grafted skin in the glabrous volar skin of fingertip. The fullthickness and partial-thickness skin graft harvested from palmar skin provide color matc… Show more
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