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M Costagliola

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Histologic assessment of low-voltage electrical burns: experimental study with pigskin.

The authors have carried out an experimental protocol on pigs, producing identical electrical burns to examine clinically and histologically the evolution of these burns with time. A clinical lesion in the form of a rosette was observed. It was composed of three zones: a central zone of carbonization, a pale ischemic intermediate zone, and an erythematous peripheral zone. Microscopic observation showed vascular thrombosis in the intermediate and peripheral zones in addition to necrosis of the central zone. These vascular lesions can be classified in three stages, I, II and III, according to the degree of vascular damage. The evolution of the lesions was stabilized at 72 hours after burn injury. These observations are important in determining the surgical treatment, particularly debridement, on postburn day 3, when the prognosis of the intermediate and peripheral zones must be taken into account.

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[Computed tomographic exploration of eventrations].

With physical examination alone it is difficult or even impossible to evaluate the abdominal wall damage in patients with major evisceration, especially when they are obese. Computerized tomography (CT) is very useful in this respect as it provides a detailed anatomical overview of the lesions. CT was performed in 30 out of 229 patients operated upon. It supplied information on the size, site and extension of eviscerations and showed whether they were single or multiple; it also informed on the quality, thickness and retraction of the abdominal muscles. All this is extremely important to know before surgery as it enables the operative problems to be foreseen and, to some extent, the operative procedure to be determined. In all cases of complex evisceration CT may be regarded as the "key examination".

Hernia, Ventral↗