Chemical Burn Caused by Ranunculus arvensis

Albayrak Y., ALBAYRAK A., MELİKOĞLU M., KORDALİ Ş.

WOUNDS-A COMPENDIUM OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, cilt.23, sa.3, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 23 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Dergi Adı: WOUNDS-A COMPENDIUM OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Ranunculus arvensis is a wild growing plant, used traditionally for the treatment of various diseases. Very few chemical burn cases resulting from R arvensis are reported in the literature. We present a patient who applied the plant R arvensis externally to his left leg attempting to alleviate leg pain, and suffered chemical burns as a consequence. Treatment was started with paraffin-impregnated gauze dressings containing chlorhexidine. The patient's lesions began to recover in 4-5 days, and resolved within 14 days.