• Ulus Travma Acil Cer · May 2017

    A rare type of burn injury due to butane gas inhalation.

    • Ergin Seven, Uğur Horoz, Elif Sarı, Hülda Rifat Özakpınar, Mert Muhittin Sandıkcı, Emre İnözü, and Ali Teoman Tellioğlu.
    • Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital; Ankara-Turkey. ugur_horoz@hotmail.com.
    • Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2017 May 1; 23 (3): 212-216.

    BackgroundAbusive inhalation of butane gas is becoming a serious public health problem among teenagers and young adult population; however, there has been little reporting on explosion burns associated with abuse of butane cigarette lighter fluid.MethodsRetrospective study was conducted of 22 patients who were burned in last 2 years in explosion of butane gas, a flammable, odorless, and colorless aliphatic hydrocarbon.ResultsDetails of sociodemographic profile of the patients, any underlying psychiatric illness, alcohol abuse, depth of burn injury, any associated injury, duration of hospitalization, and percentage of burned area were recorded and analyzed.ConclusionAll of the patients were young men, and most had superficial burn injury. Hospital stay ranged from 0 to 11 days. All of the patients were treated with conservative management.

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