[Heterotopic ossifications: a severe complication following extensive burn injury].
Heterotopic ossifications in periarticular tissue can appear after severe head injury, spine trauma or local joint trauma. Following extensive burns, heterotopic ossifications are a rare, severe complication with an unclear pathogenesis. We report one case with this kind of complication in a 50-year old male patient who sustained full and partial thickness burn injuries over 60 % of the body. The thermal injury was accompanied by a severe inhalation injury.
Siemers
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Plastische Chirurgie, Handchirurgie, Intensiveinheit für Schwerbrandverletzte, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany. f.siemers@gmx.de
Lohmeyer
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JA
Machens
H-G
HG
Eisenbeiss
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Mailänder
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P
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