Volume increase by Z-plasty to the finger skin: its application  in electrical ring burns.
Arc welder finger ring burns are an illustration of traumatic annular contractures. The potential for these and similar circumferential injuries to produce digital edema has led us to utilize Z-plasty in the early wound healing phase. Early Z-plasty in selected cases can prevent this loss of function from edema.
D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery*; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous