title: The successful treatment of a patient with extensive deep burns and an open comminuted fracture of a lower extremity.
abstract: A patient with 95 per cent of the body surface area burned (51 per cent third degree burn) who also sustained an open comminuted fracture of the upper third of the tibia and fibula has been treated successfully.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D003646:Debridement; D005360:Fibula / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D005597:Fractures, Open / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery