TLDR Hair-follicle transplants can heal chronic skin ulcers.
Hair-follicle transplantation was explored as a treatment for chronic skin ulcers, which posed a significant challenge in clinical dermatology. The study highlighted a case where a chronic skin ulcer, caused by livedoid vasculopathy, fully healed within 2 months following the implantation of hair follicles into the wound bed. The improvement in healing was likely attributed to the action of follicle stem cells, suggesting a promising approach for treating such ulcers.
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