Too Hot for Your Pocket! Burns from E-Cigarette Lithium Battery Explosions: A Case Series

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1043-1047

  Maraqa, Tareq ^a   Mohamed, Mohamed A T ^a   Salib, Mina ^a   Morris, Stephen ^a   Mercer, Leo ^a   Sachwani Daswani, Gul R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM ION; LITHIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; BLISTER; BURN; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; EXCISION; EXPLOSION; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HAND; HUMAN; LOWER LIMB; MALE; PENIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; THORAX; THORAX WALL; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EVENT; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; MIDDLE AGED; POWER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BURNS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 85055200903     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irx015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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