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Jessica L. Fewkes, assistant professor of dermatology at the Medical School and co-director of the MGH dermatologic surgery unit, is using autografts to replace patient skin loss during surgery...
...This is the first situation that cells have been taken out of someone and put back onto that person," says G. Gregory Gallico, assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Medical School and a plastic surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). "It's a quantum leap...
Split skin grafting is 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...
Hector I. Colon, 19, of 70 Bishop Allen Dr. in Cambridge, arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at 10:45 p.m. in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the right of his face, said Ruth Stokes, a clerical chargeperson...
Stokes could not comment on the severity of the injury, but said that Colon would be transferred to the MGH Trauma Center...