Surgical Treatment of a Child With Deep Burn of the Face

Abstract

Total deep facial burns represent one of the most complex clinical tasks for a surgeon. A child’s quality of life and complexity of subsequent treatment stages depends on effective surgical tactics used during the acute period of a burn trauma. The article describes the use of full-thickness graft preliminarily stretched with an endoexpander when treating deep facial burns in a child with the total burns involving 60% of body surface and thermoinhalation lesion. The surgery was done on the 36th day of staying at the hospital in spite of the patient’s severe condition.