Chemicals may produce gangrene, the most dangerous of which is carbolic acid which causes local arterial spasm. It is a particularly severe agent since anaesthesia masks the pain before the onset of the gangrene. Absorption of the acid may produce systemic effects.
Treatment is with local bicarbonate soaks with later excision of the slough and skin grafting.
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