Surgical Treatment of a Burns Case of 40% TBSA.
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چکیده
We describe the case of a two-year-old boy with massive burns. After the period of shock and sepsis, very successful four-phase operative treatment was performed, with combined skin grafting homograft plus autograft. With regard to the four surgical interventions, in the first two we used the above combined method, while in the other two we used grafting only with skin autograft. We also used the donor region of the epicranial scalp.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of burns and fire disasters
دوره 18 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005