“…Muscle, fascia, perichondrium, periosteum, paratenon and perineurium have been stated to be good vascular beds for skin grafts (Swaim , Pope ,, Probst , Swaim ). Experimental studies in dogs have shown good skin graft survival on fresh surgical wounds on the trunk (Pope , Bauer and Pope , Pope and Swaim ). To the authors’ knowledge, there is only one clinical report in the literature in which two dogs received full‐thickness meshed free skin grafts on the antebrachium to cover fresh surgical wounds (Gregory and Gourley ).…”