Hot-press hand burn treatment.
Hand injuries are common in the workplace. Modern industrial machines cause complex occupational hand injuries. Hot-press contact hand burns generally are encountered by workers in the dry-cleaning industry. Seventeen patients with hot-press hand burns were treated at the University of California-Irvine Medical Center Burn Center. Eight patients (47%) required skin grafting, seven (41%) were treated with hydrotherapy only, and two (12%) needed flaps. These results were not what we expected.
Celikoz
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Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange 92868, USA.
Achauer
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VanderKam
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D017132:Workplace