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Gallico says that the technique is being used all around the world, from Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md., to Shriners Burn Institutes in Galveston, Tx. and Cincinnati, Oh., to Hanover, Germany...
Clinical use of cultured skin cells began in 1982, when Gallico and colleague Nicholas E. O'Connor, instructor in surgery at the Medical School and a surgeon at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, first used the technique to treat a massively burned patient at the Shriners Burn Institute in Boston...
...addition to their use in the treatment of burn victims, the cultures are utilized today to treat skin cancer patients as well as victims of other dermatological diseases...
...currently the method of choice for most physicians, and a 1990 study by Gallico, O'Connor and John P. Remensnyder Jr., associate professor of surgery at the Medical School and director of the MGH operating rooms, found that the method produced an 84 percent success rate among severe burn victims, while autografting produced a 68 percent success rate...
...souls. The children watched television all day, and slept on the floor or shared a single bed. They ate lunch meat from a cooler, or cooked fried chicken on some electric skillets and a hot plate they bought from a street person. Brandon once tripped over a shoe and burned his hand on hot oil in the skillet. He sobbed for an hour, but Tamey did not think the burn was bad enough to justify calling an ambulance. She was worried about the cost...