Strategies and challenges in the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers

Figure 2 This 70-year-old female patient had suffered from chronic venous leg ulcers on both lower extremities for 40 years. Thirty years ago, a skin graft was harvested from her thigh without any anesthesia expecting for better survival of the graft. Unfortunately, the skin graft failed to grow, and she refused any skin harvest for skin graft. At this current time, her wound was prepared well enough for skin graft. A: Chronic venous leg ulcers on both lower extremities; B: Prepared for skin graft.