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Florencia S Grabois1, Tomás Voievdca, Adriana Aqcuavita
1Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario CEMIC, Ciudad de Buenos Aires. florgrabois@gmail.com
Archivos Argentinos De Pediatria
|December 25, 2008
Abstract:
The skin of premature infants is an ineffective barrier. The stratum corneum is thinner than that found in full-term infants. We report on a premature patient with extravasation injury from sodium bicarbonate. Daily treatment with sterile petrolatum resulted in restitutio ad integrum.