Reconstructive surgeries after extensive burns in children

Acta Chir Plast. 2003;45(4):139-43.

Abstract

The authors' aim is to summarize and generalize the knowledge acquired in the course of the last eight years of work with children with extensive burns. Reconstructive surgeries show a certain specific feature consisting in the considerable extent of the scarred area often exceeding 50% of the body surface, and with the gradual increase in number of operations they are gaining importance.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Burns / complications
  • Burns / surgery*
  • Child
  • Cicatrix / etiology
  • Cicatrix / surgery*
  • Contracture / etiology
  • Contracture / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Plastic Surgery Procedures / methods*
  • Reoperation
  • Skin Transplantation / methods*
  • Skin, Artificial
  • Tissue Expansion / methods