Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique

Hair tourniquet syndrome is a clinical phenomenon that involves hair or thread becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that pain, swelling and occasionally ischemia result. We report two cases of hair tourniquet syndrome that affected the digits and were treated with hair removal cream, whic...

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Autores principales: Alruwaili, N., Alshehri, Hassan A., Halimeh, Bachar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30805434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpam.2015.02.003
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description Hair tourniquet syndrome is a clinical phenomenon that involves hair or thread becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that pain, swelling and occasionally ischemia result. We report two cases of hair tourniquet syndrome that affected the digits and were treated with hair removal cream, which was an easy, effective and less invasive treatment method compared with standard managements such as incision or blunt probe cutting techniques.
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spelling pubmed-63723962019-02-25 Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique Alruwaili, N. Alshehri, Hassan A. Halimeh, Bachar Int J Pediatr Adolesc Med Case Report Hair tourniquet syndrome is a clinical phenomenon that involves hair or thread becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that pain, swelling and occasionally ischemia result. We report two cases of hair tourniquet syndrome that affected the digits and were treated with hair removal cream, which was an easy, effective and less invasive treatment method compared with standard managements such as incision or blunt probe cutting techniques. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2015-03 2015-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6372396/ /pubmed/30805434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpam.2015.02.003 Text en Copyright © 2015, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (General Organization),. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique
title Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique
title_full Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique
title_fullStr Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique
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title_short Hair tourniquet syndrome: Successful management with a painless technique
title_sort hair tourniquet syndrome: successful management with a painless technique
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30805434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpam.2015.02.003
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