title: Hair bleaching and skin burning.
abstract: Hairdressing-related burns are preventable and therefore each case is one too many. We report a unique case of a 16-yr-old girl who suffered full-thickness chemical and thermal burns to the nape of her neck and superficial burns to the occiput after her hair had been dyed blond and placed under a dryer to accelerate the highlighting procedure. The wound on the nape of the neck required surgical debridement and skin grafting. The grafted area resulted in subsequent scar formation.
authors.affiliation: Children's Burns Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; Medical University of Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lingitz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prattes
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sutter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schintler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trop
keywords: deep dermal burns; hair bleaching