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Severe thermal hand burns--factors affecting prognosis
1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract:
This paper presents the results of the analysis of clinical data from a series of 132 thermally injured patients with 214 burned hands. The objective was to identify the factors affecting the pathogenesis of postburn hand deformities. The study indicates that deep burns have the worst prognosis and that circumferential burns are always followed by secondary sequelae. The incidence of secondary hand deformity rises sharply when the burn affects more than 25 per cent of the total body surface area (TBSA). Given the same physical therapy programme, early tangential excision and immediate grafting yield better results than conservative treatment. The results underline the role of patient motivation in maximal hand rehabilitation.
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