title: Versajet hydrosurgery system in the debridement of skin necrosis after Ca gluconate extravasation: report of 9 infantile cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to evaluate the results of debridement with Versajet hydrosurgery system in patients with skin necrosis after ca gluconate extravasation.
  
  
  METHODS
  We evaluated nine infants (mean age: 26 days; range: 1 day to 3 months) with calcium gluconate extravasation injury. Site of injury was the foot in 3 cases, the hand and wrist in 5 and the scalp in one. In all patients the skin necrosis was debrided with Versajet hydrosurgery system under general anesthesia without damaging the dermis layer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Following debridement all wounds healed spontaneously by re-epithelization and the mean time of full epithelization was fourteen days. No patient required a second debridement. At a minimum follow-up of 1 year minimal scar formation was noted and there was no hypertrophic scar.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Versajet hydrosurgery system appears to be effective in the debridement of skin necrosis due to ca gluconate extravasation in pediatric population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine, Aydın, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nazan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sivrioğlu
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine, Aydın, Turkey.
authors.forename: Saime
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Irkören
mesh_terms: D002125:Calcium Gluconate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003646:Debridement / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005119:Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials / Q000150:complications*; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D006875:Hydrotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D009336:Necrosis; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D014945:Wound Healing
chemical_list: D002125:Calcium Gluconate