@article{ref1,
title="Tandir burns: A severe cause of burns in rural Turkey",
journal="Burns: journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries",
year="2007",
author="Akçay, Mufide Nuran and Ozoğul, Bunyamin and Aydinli, Bulent and Oztürk, Gurkan",
volume="34",
number="2",
pages="268 - 270",
abstract="Tandir is the name given to an oven used for baking bread in the eastern and south-eastern part of Anatolia. Tandir burn is a special kind of burns in which primarily women and small children fall in it and have deep extensive burns (TBSA %). The records of 60 patients with tandir burn who were treated in our Burn Center from September 1999 to January 2006 were reviewed. The patients consisted of 9.2% of all burned patients. The mean age was 17.10 years (1-60 years) and 61.50% of the patients were female. The mean total body surface area (TBSA) burned was 21.09% (6-58) and 88% of the patients had third-degree burns. Eight of the patients underwent amputation of an extremity, 10 had fasciotomies, and 25 partial thickness skin grafts. The mean hospitalization period was 31.64 days (3-73 days). Fifteen patients (25%) died. Tandir burn is a severe kind of burn with a higher morbidity and mortality.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0305-4179",
doi="10.1016/j.burns.2007.03.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2007.03.007"
}