Surgical approach to hydrocarbon injection in upper extremities: Case series

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 382-386

  Farahvash, Mohammad Reza ^a   Yegane, Rooh Allah ^b   Bashashati, Mohammad ^b   Ahmadi, Mina ^b   Tabrizi, Nasim ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hydrocarbons; Injections; Suicide; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM SWELLING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE INDURATION; INJECTION SITE INFLAMMATION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; IRAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF INJECTION; SKIN NECROSIS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949097497     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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