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Caustics

Known as: caustic, Escharotics, caustic alkali 
Strong alkaline chemicals that destroy soft body tissues resulting in a deep, penetrating type of burn, in contrast to corrosives, that result in a… 
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LyePotassium DichromateSodium HydroxideTrichloroacetic Acid

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Review
2007
Review
2007
Steroids in second degree caustic burns of the esophagus: A systematic pooled analysis of fifty years of human data: 1956–2006
Background and objective. Although steroids are usually withheld in grades I and III esophageal burns, controversy continues… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Corticothérapie à forte dose dans le traitement des œsophagites caustiques sévères chez l’enfant
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Modeling and imaging with the scalar generalized‐screen algorithms in isotropic media
The phase‐screen and the split‐step Fourier methods, which allow modeling and migration in laterally heterogeneous media, are… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Intestinal bypass of the esophagus.
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Effect of focusing and caustics on exit phenomena in systems lacking detailed balance.
We study the trajectories followed by a particle weakly perturbed by noise, when escaping from the domain or attraction of a… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Caustic ingestion injuries.
Ingestion of caustic agents causes more than 5000 injuries yearly. There is little that the physician can do acutely to attenuate… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Caustic sclerosing cholangitis. A complication of the surgical treatment of hydatid disease of the liver.
In five patients, sclerosing cholangitis developed after the surgical treatment of hydatid cyst of the liver. The cyst… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Asymptotic evaluation of high-frequency fields near a caustic: An introduction to Maslov's method
It is well known that the geometrical optics approximation, generally valid for high-frequency fields, fails in the vicinity of a… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Esophageal perforations: a 15 year experience.
Highly Cited
1946
Highly Cited
1946
AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE GRAFTS IN CAUSTIC BURNS OF THE EYE*
DUKE-ELDER, SIR STEWART.-Text-book of Ophthalmology. Vol. III, 1945. PARSONS, SIR JOHN H.-Diseases of the Eye. 1942. ELLIOT, R. H… 
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