Severe Liquid Nitrogen Freeze Injury: A Case Report

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages E7-E10

  Mückley, Thomas ^a   Hofmann, Gunther O ^a   Pallua, Norbert ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; TETANUS TOXOID; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOT INJURY; FOOT PAIN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INJURY; LIQUID NITROGEN FREEZE INJURY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; EDEMA; FASCIA; FREEZING; FROSTBITE; HUMANS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; NITROGEN;

EID: 34250344131     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000231981.30072.cf     Document Type: Article

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