Abstract
We report a burn patient who received five split-thickness skin grafts （STSG） after sustaining a superficial dermal burn on her leg and thigh subsequent to a 60% total surface area burn. The leg was the original donor site of the grafts. The STSG-reconstructed region of the previous burn area exhibited slow epithelization, but epithelization of the donor site for the original graft （leg） was normal. Faster epithelization was noted at the area of the donor site for the previous graft than at the area of the previous STSG. This difference was attributed to the growth of keratinocytes preserved in the epithelium.
