Affiliation:
1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kansai Medical University , Osaka , Japan
Abstract
Abstract
The patient was a 57-year-old woman who suffered third-degree burns to the dorsal side of her left fingers (non-dominant hand) when it was caught in a press machine heated to 200°C while she was cleaning clothes. At 20 hours after the injury, the necrotic tissue was excised and covered with a preserved subdermal vascular network (PSVN) skin graft, which allowed the patient to regain a very good hand function. Even for severe heat press injuries of the hand, the combination of immediate surgical intervention, a thick skin graft with PSVN, and early rehabilitation from the first postoperative week leads to good functional and cosmetic reconstruction outcomes.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Rehabilitation,Emergency Medicine,Surgery
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