Pediatric Palm Contact Burns: A Ten-Year Review

@article{Scott2008PediatricPC,
  title={Pediatric Palm Contact Burns: A Ten-Year Review},
  author={Jeffrey R Scott and Beth A Costa and Nicole S. Gibran and Loren H. Engrav and David Heimbach and Matthew B. Klein},
  journal={Journal of Burn Care \& Research},
  year={2008},
  volume={29},
  pages={614-618}
}
Management and proper approach to pediatric palm burns remains unclear. Our burn center’s approach includes early, aggressive range of motion therapy, combined with a period of watchful waiting, reserving grafting only for those palms that do not heal in a timely manner. We reviewed our experience using this approach over a 10-year period. We performed a retrospective review of all pediatric patients with palm burns admitted to our burn center from 1994 to 2004. A total of 168 patients (194… 
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