A high voltage electrical burn of lung parenchyma

Burns

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 659-663

  Masanes M J ^a,d   Gourbiere E ^b   Prudent, J ^c   Lioret, N ^d   Febvre, M ^a   Prevot S ^e   Lebeau, B ^a  

^a Service de Pneumologie   (France)

^b GAZ DE FRANCE   (France)

^c HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^d Professeur Maurice Mimoun Hop S   (France)

^e HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical burn; High voltage current; Lung burn injury; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTRIC ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC BURN; ELECTRIC INJURY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEVER; HAND; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADULT; BURNS, ELECTRIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LUNG; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY EDEMA; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0343496893     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(00)00035-8     Document Type: Article

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