Phosphorous pentachloride chemical burn--a slowly healing injury.
A 51-year-old chemical engineer sustained phosphorous pentachloride partial skin thickness burns over 20 per cent of his body surface area. Although macroscopically and microscopically the wound seemed to be superficial, the course of clinical healing of this injury was very slow and painful. Retrospectively this burn should have been treated by early excision and grafting.
Eldad
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Department of Plastic Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Chaouat
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M
Weinberg
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A
Neuman
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A
Ben Meir
P
P
Rotem
M
M
Wexler
M R
MR
D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002616:Chemical Engineering; D002712:Chlorides / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017553:Phosphorus Compounds; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*
D002712:Chlorides; D017553:Phosphorus Compounds; D010758:Phosphorus; C043693:phosphorus chloride