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Consequently, a burn of the dorsum of the hand becomes deep more quickly than a burn of the lower back.Įstablishing a correct depth diagnosis is largely based on the patient history (e.g., having been in a car fire virtually always results in a full thickness burn) as well as on judging the physical aspects of the burn. The thickness of the skin varies over the body: in very thin skin (the eyelids and the dorsum of the hand), a given heat insult will result in more damage than in very thick skin (i.e. This type of healing will take considerably longer, and in large burns, it will not be successful. If the epidermis and dermis are completely destroyed, as is the case in a full thickness lesion, reepithelialisation can only occur from the wound edges. If some of these structures are still intact, the epidermis can, in principle, heal spontaneously ‘from its deep roots’. The dermis contains epidermal structures such as the hair follicles, the sweat glands and sebaceous glands. The upper layer, the epidermis, is separated from the dermis, the underlying layer, by the basal membrane. The depth classification is related to the anatomy of the skin.

The depth of a burn is very important as it determines how (surgically or not) the lesions should be treated.

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