Surgical excision and skin grafting therapy is established upon the premise that no effective method is available for treating a series of postburn illness. 

It is considered that the tissue in the zone of stasis of deep second-degree burns is doomed to a complicated and dangerous progressive necrosis. 

Additionally, it is assumed that wound with necrosis of full-thickness dermis is unlikely to heal spontaneously. 

During the procedure of conservative repairing treatment for deep burns wounds, infection, inflammation and other serious complications may develop and become life-threatening, and the treatment result will be pathological. 

Based upon the above consideration, a therapy was established: First transform the burns wound to a traumatic wound via surgical intervention and then perform the conventional burns treatment in an attempt to increase survival rate. 

In the clinic setting, the whole burned necrotic tissue together with some viable dermis or subcutaneous tissue are removed, creating a surgical wound of muscle layer over which a variety of autografts are placed to close the wound. 

Admittedly, this therapeutic option anticipates a compromised and subop-timal result while striving mostly to save the patient’s life. 

This therapy is a purely surgical technique and functions with disregard to burns physiology. 

As a treatment, it resembles the treatment of a gastric ulcer by surgical intervention – subtotal gastrectomy. 

Therefore, this therapy does not treat burns tissue itself but constitutes simply a surgical therapy for treating muscle or deeper burns rather than skin burns.