Electrical injury of wrist: classification and

Burns · Dec 1990

Electrical injury of wrist: classification and treatment--clinical analysis of 90 cases.

Between January 1980 and December 1989, a prospective study was carried out on 114 upper limbs in 90 patients, which were electrically burned with the wrist as the current entrance site. Based upon extensive clinical investigations of arterial injury and its adverse effect on hand circulation, a grading system is suggested for electrically injured wrists based on the severity of injury. ⋯ However, in subgroups of Type I to Type IV, the amputation rates were 0, 0, 80 and 100 per cent, respectively. A new method to repair the circumferential wound of an electrically burned wrist as well as to bypass the blood flow to the obstructed hand, using a pedicled greater omentum transfer and vascular anastomosis between gastroepiploic artery and the palmar artery, was successfully used in a Type III case.

expand abstract… or not…
- Z Y Shen, Z D Chang, and N Z Wang.
- Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Ji Shui Tan Hospital, Beijing, China.
- Burns. 1990 Dec 1; 16 (6): 449-56.
AbstractBetween January 1980 and December 1989, a prospective study was carried out on 114 upper limbs in 90 patients, which were electrically burned with the wrist as the current entrance site. Based upon extensive clinical investigations of arterial injury and its adverse effect on hand circulation, a grading system is suggested for electrically injured wrists based on the severity of injury. The total amputation rate was 39.4 per cent in this group, which was composed of miscellaneous cases with various injuries. However, in subgroups of Type I to Type IV, the amputation rates were 0, 0, 80 and 100 per cent, respectively. A new method to repair the circumferential wound of an electrically burned wrist as well as to bypass the blood flow to the obstructed hand, using a pedicled greater omentum transfer and vascular anastomosis between gastroepiploic artery and the palmar artery, was successfully used in a Type III case.

Pubmed Full text Copy Citation Plaintext

Add institutional full text...
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?

300 characters remaining

help

You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes

Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.

Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.

Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.

Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)

Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")

For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.

Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..
hide…

Electrical injury of wrist: classification and treatment--clinical analysis of 90 cases.

Notes

300 characters remaining

help

You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes

What will the 'Medical Journal of You' look like?

Start your free 21 day trial now.