Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant

We report the case of a 4-year-old female infant who developed ongoing deep dermal necrosis of the bilateral legs after jellyfish contact in Thailand. Stepwise radical debridement and vacuum assisted wound therapy seemed to be an effective strategy to prevent progressive soft tissue loss.

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Autores principales: Desax-Willer, Diana, Krebs, Thomas, Christen, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30397636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2018.1533407
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spelling pubmed-62113182018-11-05 Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant Desax-Willer, Diana Krebs, Thomas Christen, Samuel Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report We report the case of a 4-year-old female infant who developed ongoing deep dermal necrosis of the bilateral legs after jellyfish contact in Thailand. Stepwise radical debridement and vacuum assisted wound therapy seemed to be an effective strategy to prevent progressive soft tissue loss. Taylor & Francis 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6211318/ /pubmed/30397636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2018.1533407 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
title_full Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
title_fullStr Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
title_full_unstemmed Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
title_short Delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
title_sort delayed deep dermal necrosis after jellyfish sting in a 4-year-old female infant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30397636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2018.1533407
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