What is a skin graft? Skin... - General Nursing Students

skin grafting

Excisional Biopsy

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Healthy skin is taken from a place on your body called the donor site. Most people who are having a skin graft have a split-thickness skin graft. This takes the two top layers of skin from the donor site (the epidermis) and the layer under the epidermis (the dermis). The donor site can be any area of the body. Most times, it is an area that is hidden by clothes, such as the buttock or inner thigh. Following split-thickness skin grafting, patiently typically recover quickly. Full-thickness grafts