Skin autografting

Alternative names
Skin transplant; Skin graft

Definition
A skin graft is a patch of skin that is surgically removed from one area of the body and transplanted to another one.

see Skin graft.

Johns Hopkins patient information

Last revised: December 3, 2012
by Martin A. Harms, M.D.

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