This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (66)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Guillermo Colocho, MD; William P. Graham, III, MD; Arthur E. Greene, PhD; Dale W. Matheson, PhD; Dennis Lynch, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1974;109(3):370-373.

Abstract
In 65 patients, split-thickness donor sites were covered with amniotic membrane. Amniotic membrane was used to dress partialthickness burns in 42 patients. In rats, open wounds were covered with amnion and in others it was placed in a subcutaneous pocket. The amnion acted as a comfortable and effective wound dressing. None of the biopsy specimens, however, showed vascularization of the amnion by the host.

Author Affiliations
From the General Clinical Research Center of the Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia (Drs. Colocho and Lynch); the departments of surgery and anatomy, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Penn (Drs. Graham and Matheson); and the Institute for Medical Research, Camden, NJ (Dr. Greene).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 20, 1973.

Read before the Plastic Surgery Research Council, Indianapolis, May 1970.

Reprint requests to Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033 (Dr. Graham).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Bacterial contamination of amniotic membrane
Adds et al.
Br J Ophthalmol 2001;85:228-230.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Amniotic membrane transplantation
DUA
Br J Ophthalmol 1999;83:748-752.
FULL TEXT  

Transplantation of amniotic membrane and limbal autograft for patients with recurrent pterygium associated with symblepharon
Shimazaki et al.
Br J Ophthalmol 1998;82:235-240.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Hydrogels Based on Amniotic Collagen Poly(Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) Graft Copolymers
Sastry and Rao
Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers 1990;5:430-438.
ABSTRACT  

Characteristics and Uses of Biologic Dressings and Skin Substitutes
Pruitt and Levine
Arch Surg 1984;119:312-322.
ABSTRACT  

Use of Dry Human and Bovine Amnion as a Biological Dressing
Rao and Chandrasekharam
Arch Surg 1981;116:891-896.
ABSTRACT