A modern approach to the treatment of elimination of post-burn contractures of the shoulder and elbow joint by full-thickness skin grafting in children

This article presents a comparison between modern and traditional methods of surgical treatment of post-burn cicatricial contractures in the area of the shoulder joint and forearm in children. The study was conducted in the Andijan Regional Children's Multidisciplinary Medical Center in the Department of Plastic Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery in 62 patients with post-burn cicatricial contractures of the shoulder joint and forearm. of these, 42 patients were selected as the main group and 20 as the control group. the main group of patients underwent a modern surgical method of full-thickness skin grafting. the results showed that in the treatment of modern surgical methods in patients with post-burn cicatricial contractures in the area of the shoulder joint and forearm, 95.3% of good results were achieved.