title: Volume increase by Z-plasty to the finger skin: its application  in electrical ring burns.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery*; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous