Fig. 5

Clinical case of the treatment of chronic radiation injury by ADSCs. A 52-year-old female was suffering from intractable chronic radiation wounds, which limited her neck movement, range of motion of 130° (a). The defect was sized 25 × 17 mm and reached deep partially to the exposed left thyroid cartilage (b). Non-cultured cells with adipose-derived stem cells were processed and then injected to the debrided wound margin and in the wound base. In 75 days, the wound was healed and the neck forward movement was improved, and at 6 months, the injected subcutaneous lesion has still kept its soft texture and demonstrated the thick and vascularized soft tissue and the range of motion improved to 165° (c)