Phosphorous pentachloride chemical burn--a slowly healing injury.

A Eldad, M Chaouat, A Weinberg, A Neuman, P Ben Meir, M Rotem, M R Wexler

Index: Burns 18(4) , 340-1, (1992)

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Abstract

A 51-year-old chemical engineer sustained phosphorous pentachloride partial skin thickness burns over 20 per cent of his body surface area. Although macroscopically and microscopically the wound seemed to be superficial, the course of clinical healing of this injury was very slow and painful. Retrospectively this burn should have been treated by early excision and grafting.