title: Experience with severe extensive blistering skin disease in a paediatric burns unit.
abstract: Vesiculobullous disorders are thankfully uncommon. A brief overview of the literature is presented together with our experience of managing these cases on a paediatric burns unit in the six years 1992 1998. The advantages of management on such a unit are outlined and include a facility for major dressings and frequent changes and a familiarity with fluid resuscitation in the child with major skin loss. The financial cost of treatment and rehabilitation of these children is high.
authors.affiliation: The Manchester Burns Research Group, Withington Hospital, West Didsbury, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Greenwood
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Davenport
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016109:Epidermolysis Bullosa, Junctional / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D013206:Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D013262:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy