PEDIATRICS Vol. 79 No. 2 February 1987, pp. 255-260
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Microwave Oven Burns to Children: An Unusual Manifestation of Child Abuse

Randell C. Alexander MD, PhD1, James A. Surrell MD1, and Stephen D. Cohle MD1

1 From the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Blodgett Hospital and Michigan State University, East Lansing

Two children sustained full-thickness burns as a result of being placed in microwave ovens. Well demarcated burns occurred on the skin surfaces closest to the microwave-emitting devices. Morbidity was limited to complications of direct thermal effects. One of the children sustained a distinctive pattern of relative sparing of tissue layers without electrical burn features, such as nuclear streaming and charring, at the entrance site. In both instances eventual identification of this unusual etiology was initiated by child abuse concerns.

Key Words: microwave oven burn • child abuse

Submitted on November 12, 1985
Accepted on April 16, 1986




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