title: Concepts in local treatment of extensive paediatric burns.
abstract: There is a wide variety of local therapeutical methods for extensive burns. This article aims to be a general overview of the most common methods used in the local treatment for extensive burns, both in our clinic and globally. Clinical examples are shown from our clinic; cases of the last 8 years. None of the less there is no such thing as the "perfect method of treatment" but a thin balance between the clinical experience of plastic surgeons, every case particularities and specified characteristics, meaning advantages, disadvantages and limited indications of local topics or methods of skin covering.
authors.affiliation: "Grigore Alexandrescu" Hospital, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burns Department.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ungureanu
mesh_terms: D000891:Anti-Infective Agents, Local / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002056:Burns / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000891:Anti-Infective Agents, Local
keywords: allograft; autograft; extensive burns; local topics; synthetic and semi-synthetic skin substitutes