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Application of CO2-laser in scars treatment with regard to its real efficiency determines the effectiveness of therapy.

Rehabilitation of patients suffering from consequences of burn injury is actual problem in plastic surgery. There is no unified strategy defining optimal terms and stages of treatment, possibility and advisability of simultaneous interventions on different anatomical areas, combination of surgical and conservative treatment while it is necessary for decrease of rehabilitation terms in victims. On basis of twelve-year experience of 1246 patients with consequences of burn injury the authors developed universal algorithm for optimization of surgical treatment, improvement of results and reduction of treatment time.