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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns

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Injuries from caustic substances usually occur in chemical industry, during transportation and handling of hazardous materials, at home, during job training and at school.

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  1. Clinic for Hand-, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery — Burn Center — Clinic for Plastic & Hand Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Ludwig-Guttmann-Straße 13, 67071, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    Leila Kolios M.D.

  2. ETHIANUM, Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic & Preventive Medicine at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

    Günter Germann

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  1. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Plastische, Aesthetische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz M.D., M.Sc.

  3. Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery and Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

    Folke Sjöberg M.D., Ph.D.

  4. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Folke Sjöberg M.D., Ph.D.

  5. Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA

    Steven E. Wolf M.D.

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Kolios, L., Germann, G. (2012). Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns. In: Jeschke, M.G., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S.E. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0348-7_29

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