Two Cases of an Unusual Presentation of Electrical Burn Injuries
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Date
2022-03
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Başkent Üniversitesi
Abstract
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Electric injuries have a wide variety of consequences ranging from disfigurements, extremity loss, and death. The limbs are the most affected sites because of the high resistance of muscles and tendons to electricity. The most common pathway of entry to exit point is upper limb to lower limb, so the thigh to foot pathway is exceptional. In this case report, we aimed to present the mechanisms in 2 construction workers who had high-voltage electric burns that followed this unusual pathwa
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Entry and exit wound, High-voltage burn, Occupational injury
Citation
Burn Care & Prevention, cilt 2, sayı 1, ss. 29-33