Burn appearance and spontaneous healing: a prospective study.
In a prospective study to correlate initial burn wound appearance with burn wound appearance after 21 days of conservative wound care, it was found that all burn appearances (except the presence of thrombosed capillaries and charred, "leathery" skin) were associated with a high probability of spontaneous healing. These findings emphasize the difficulty of selecting those burn wounds likely to benefit from early excision and grafting unless, of course, the burn is obviously full-thickness.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012677:Sensation; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing