Low urgency
-Moderately severe
It is a lesion in body tissues, in this case at the level of the penis, caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, the sun or radiation.
There are three types of burns:
1) First-degree burns: they damage only the outer layer of the skin.
2) Second-degree burns: Damage the outer layer and the layer underneath it.
3) Third-degree burns: Damage or destroy the deeper layer of skin and the tissues underneath it.
May cause swelling, blistering and/or scarring depending on the severity of the burn.
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- Arek Wiktor, MD, David Richards, MD, FACEP. Treatment of minor thermal burns. UpToDate, Sep 17, 2015.
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- http://ameriburn.org/who-we-are/media/burn-incidence-fact-sheet/ (Accessed on June 21, 2018).
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- Efectos nocivos causados por la luz y las radiaciones. Farreras Rozman. Medicina Interna. Volumen II. Duodécima edición. Páginas: 2574 - 2580.
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