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Acute electric burns

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1980
J. Kelleher
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Persistent peripheral nerve pathologies in patients with electric burns.

Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 1996
Clinical and electrodiagnostic evaluations were performed in 25 patients with electric burns who were injured 2 to 13 years before the study. Abnormal motor nerve conduct findings were detected in 12 of the patients.
Mehmet A. Haberal, Sezer G??rer, Nafiz Akman, Osman Ba????ze   +3 more
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Acute Electrical Burns

Seminars in Neurology, 1995
Electric current can damage an individual by thermal heating of the tissues; by disregulating autonomously functioning organ systems, such as the circulatory and respiratory systems; or by once-only or continuing stimulation of the nerves and striated muscles.
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Bracelet burn—An unusual electric burn

Hand, 1976
A car mechanic sustained a deep partial thickness burn of the wrist when his metal watch strap short circuited the battery of a car upon which he was working.
Israel Dvoretzky, Benjamin K. Fisher
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Acute electric burns. Current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to management.

Archives of Surgery, 1980
A review of 102 cases of high-voltage electric injuries was performed. The average total body surface area was 15.2%. The average age was 32 years. The mortality was 2.1%. Advances in fluid therapy have virtually eliminated renal failure.
J. Hunt, R. Sato, C. Baxter
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Electric burns and frostbite: patterns of vascular injury.

Journal of Trauma, 1982
This pattern of vascular damage after electrical burn or frostbite injury was studied angiographically in rabbits. Frostbite caused a progressive increase in the arterial and venous thrombosis after initial spasm as observed from 15 minutes to 48 hours ...
H. M. Lazarus, W. Hutto
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The treatment of lip deformities resulting from electric burns.

American Journal of Surgery, 1954
CCIDENTS associated with the use of various A mechanica and eIectrica1 devices are fairly common in the average American home. The purpose of this paper is to report one type of such accident which seIdom appears in the medica literature; the eIectric ...
V. H. Kazanjian, A. Roopenian
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Early vascular grafting to prevent upper extremity necrosis after electric burns: additional commentary on indications for surgery.

Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 1987
Early vascular grafting has been used to reestablish circulation to the hand in the treatment of electric injuries of the wrist with arterial damage.
X. Wang, E. Bartle, B. B. Roberts
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Identification of nonviable muscle in electric burns with nitroblue tetrazolium.

Journal of Surgical Research, 1984
Both experimental and clinical evaluation of nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) as a method of identifying ischemic and necrotic muscle is described. Colorless NBT was reduced to a blue formazin by viable muscle but remained colorless in necrotic muscle. Muscle
J. Hunt, E. Heck
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Electrical Burns of the Mouth in Children

Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, 1984
The acceptable state of the art for commissure electric burns of the mouth in children in the past was to advocate conservative treatment, allowing spontaneous healing to be followed by reconstructive procedures. These statements were made because of the difficulty of assessing the degree of initial injury, the loss of valuable normal tissue in early ...
James E. Leake, John W. Curtin
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