Injuries due to cold
are more frequent and urgent in military than in civil life. Local cold
injuries are divided into chilblain, frostbite and immersion foot. Whereas
chilblain and frostbite occur sporadically in civil life, immersion foot and
hand are encountered almost entirely in the armed forces.
Intense vasoconstriction due to the
local action of cold and reflex vasoconstrictor stimulation is reinforced by
the passage of cold blood through the vasomotor center. Vasoconstriction
provokes tissue anoxia. Decreased muscular activity further diminishes the
blood supply. Ice crystal formation does not usually occur, but when it does,
necrosis ensues.-
Symptomatology
- symptomatology
- Objective Symptoms
- Elementary Lesions
- General Diagnosis
- Diagnostic Detail
- Regional Prediliection
- Skin Disorders
- Radiation Therapy
- Radiation For Skin
- Application of Radiation is Great
- Dosage Of Radiotherapy
- Radiation Therapy Side Effects
- SURGICAL DIATHERMY
- Current and Apparatus of Surgical Diathermy
- Operative Technique of Surgical Diathermy
- Indications for Surgical Diathermy
- Dermatoses Due To Physical Causes
- Burns
- Miliaria
- Treatment of miliaria
- Erythema Ab Igne
- Injuries Due To Cold
- Chilblain
- Frostbite
- Erythrocyanosis Crurum
- Angiokeratoma Of Mibelli
- Cutis Marmorata ( Livedo Reticularis )
- Sunburn
- Chronic Actinic Dermatitis
- Ephelis
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- Colloid Degeneration Of The Skin
- Hydroa Vacciniforme
- Porphyria
- Roentgen And Radium Dermatitis
- Local Clinical Reactions
- Acute Radiodermatitis