[Some peculiarities of the treatment of burns of the lower extremities]. / Nekotorye osobennosti lecheniia ozhogov nizhnikh konechnostei

The results of treatment in 323 patients with burns of the lower extremities according to the materials of the CITO Burn Department for a 10-year period are reported. The authors described the method of treatment of circular burns of the lower extremities, based on suspension of the latter by needles stretched between arches, in Ilizarov apparatuses and by gauze bands supporting plaster dressings. The method is simple, convenient and facilitates the management of patients and obviates burn wound compression, prevents fusion of transplanted grafts due to compression and would permit to obtain favourable results of the treatment in the shortest time.