ARC technique – An innovative method to assess true defect in postburn contracture release

Abstract

Most commonly, skin grafts are used to resurface the raw areas resulting after the release of postburn contractures but in the extensively burned patient, donor sites may be limited. There is no accurate technique described in literature for the assessment of the true defect preoperatively. We describe a technique to accurately assess the true defect which helps to determine the amount of skin graft required preoperatively.

Keywords

• apparent defect
• contracture release
• split skin grafting
• true defect estimation