The impact of skin banking and the use of its cadaveric skin allografts for severe burn victims in Singapore.

"The authors would like to thank all who helped in the establishment of the SGH Skin Bank and Laboratory. Singapore Totalisator Board and Health Service Development Programme (Project 01/S01) under Ministry of Health for providing funding in the set-up of the hospital’s skin bank and tissue culture laboratory; Galveston’s Shriners Tissue Bank in Texas, USA and Victoria Donor Tissue Bank in Melbourne, Australia for sharing their expertise and shipping valuable skin allografts to Singapore when there was a shortage; the renal and cornea transplant co-ordinators from SGH and Singapore Eye Bank, respectively for canvassing donors for the skin bank; and to Ms. Stephanie Fook, SGH’s biostatistician for her advice on statistical analysis in this paper."