Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Using Matriderm In Comparison with a Skin Graft
A 34-year-old female with type 2 diabetes controlled by oral hypoglycemic agents for three years suffered from an unhealed diabetic foot ulcer on the right foot dorsum after trauma. Debridement was performed primarily, followed by application of Matriderm and a split-thickness skin graft. The patient stayed in the hospital for five weeks, and wound epithelialization took six weeks; the elasticity ratio was 0.75 ().