Post-burn scars and scar contractures

The mortality and morbidity from burns have diminished tremendously over the last six to seven decades. However, these do not truly reflect whether the victim could go back to society as a useful person or not and lead a normal life because of the inevitable post-burn scars, contractures and other d...

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Autores principales: Goel, Arun, Shrivastava, Prabhat
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publication 2010
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21321660
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.70724
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description The mortality and morbidity from burns have diminished tremendously over the last six to seven decades. However, these do not truly reflect whether the victim could go back to society as a useful person or not and lead a normal life because of the inevitable post-burn scars, contractures and other deformities which collectively have aesthetic and functional considerations. This article gives an overview of the post-burn scars and scar contractures, especially their prevention, minimisation and principles of management.
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spelling pubmed-30383922011-02-14 Post-burn scars and scar contractures Goel, Arun Shrivastava, Prabhat Indian J Plast Surg Review Article The mortality and morbidity from burns have diminished tremendously over the last six to seven decades. However, these do not truly reflect whether the victim could go back to society as a useful person or not and lead a normal life because of the inevitable post-burn scars, contractures and other deformities which collectively have aesthetic and functional considerations. This article gives an overview of the post-burn scars and scar contractures, especially their prevention, minimisation and principles of management. Medknow Publication 2010-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3038392/ /pubmed/21321660 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.70724 Text en © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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