[Digito-lateral flaps in the treatment of retraction after hand burns in children].

The hand's severe burns are frequent in the children. The skin of the hand is bordering skin which develop towards a retractable consequence with scar. In a sample of 10 children with this consequence same type of digital side flap in 26 fingers is carried. A great uniformity of the results is obtained, the functional normality has reached to 96% and a low index of complications has arisen which can't be attributed to the technique.