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Case Reports
. 2017 Dec 20;7(7):142-146.
eCollection 2017.

Treatment in the healing of burns with a cold plasma source

Mario Betancourt-Ángeles  1 , Rosendo Peña-Eguiluz  2 , Régulo López-Callejas  2 , Nicasio Alberto Domínguez-Cadena  1 , Antonio Mercado-Cabrera  2 , Jorge Muñoz-Infante  1 , Benjamín Gonzalo Rodríguez-Méndez  2 , Raúl Valencia-Alvarado  2 , José Alberto Moreno-Tapia  1
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Treatment in the healing of burns with a cold plasma source

Mario Betancourt-Ángeles et al. Int J Burns Trauma. .

Abstract

A cold plasma produced with helium gas was applied to two second-degree burns produced with boiling oil. These burns were located on a thigh and a shin of a 59-years-old male person. After the first treatment as benefit the patient neither presented itching nor pain and, after the second treatment, the patient presented new tissue. This result opens the possibilities of the application of a cold plasma source to health burns.

Keywords: Thermal burns; cold plasma; helium plasma; skin burns.

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Figures

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Figure 1
Burns on (A) shin and (B) thigh.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Injuries after three hours of the first treatment (A) shin and (B) thigh.
Figure 3
Figure 3
16 hours after second treatment (A) shin and (B) thigh.
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