title: Conservative treatment of deep partial thickness hand burns--a long term audit of outcome.
abstract: Fourteen patients with 23 burned hands assessed as deep partial thickness were studied. Fourteen (61%) hands re-epithelialised within 3 weeks. A detailed hand assessment at a mean of 19 months post-injury was carried out. The functional outcome compared favourably with a group of matched normal controls. There was no statistically significant functional difference between the 7 late grafted hands and the 16 spontaneously healed hands except for total passive motion. Seventeen (74%) hands were considered by the patients to be functionally as good as before the injury.
authors.affiliation: Wessex Regional Burns Centre, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shakespeare
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology