Long-term functional results of selective treatment of hand burns.

Abstract:

:Four hundred seventy-eight patients with hand burns (786 hands) were treated at the burn service of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Long-term evaluation showed that early incision and immediate autografting of deep second degree, mixed second and third degree, and third degree full-thickness hand burns resulted in 93 percent, 95 percent, and 93 percent, respectively, excellent to good functional results. There was no significant differences in results in patients with superficial second degree burns treated nonsurgically with silver nitrate dressings and early physical therapy compared with results in patients with deep second degree, mixed second and third degree, and third degree hand burns treated with early excision and grafting. No patient with fourth degree burns had excellent to good results. Permanent damage was related to extent of original injury to the extensor tendons and joint capsules. On the basis of this broad experience, it is believed that all burned hands judged unlikely to heal within 3 weeks will benefit from early excision and grafting by experienced surgical personnel.

journal_name

Am J Surg

authors

Frist W,Ackroyd F,Burke J,Bondoc C

doi

10.1016/s0002-9610(85)80049-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1985-04-01 00:00:00

pages

516-21

issue

4

eissn

0002-9610

issn

1879-1883

pii

S0002-9610(85)80049-0

journal_volume

149

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