Negative Pressure Wound Therapy and Skin Graft in Madura Foot Treatment

Ali Murat Kalender ¹, Halit Baykan ², Fuat Özkan ³, Harun Çıralık ⁴, Perihan Öztürk ⁵, Mustafa Gül ⁶, Hasan Uçmak ⁷

¹Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
²Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
³Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
⁴Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
⁵Department of Dermatology, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
⁶Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
⁷Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

DOI : 10.5152/balkanmedj.2012.014

Pages : 214-217

Abstract

Madura foot is a rare, loca, chronic granulomatous skin infection which commonly affects the adult male foot. Medical treatment reduces the size of the lesion but surgical excision is necessary for radical treatment. We present a case of a 59 year old male farmer diagnosed as actinomadura of the right foot treated with medical treatment, total excision, negative pressure wound therapy and split thickness skin graft.