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To the Editor: In their article on the management of acute cutaneous wounds, Singer and Dagum (Sept. 4 issue)¹ recommend topical nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs for the treatment of first-degree burns. They refer to a study that investigated the treatment of sunburn with a gel containing diclofenac sodium.²

Although erythema and pain are common in sunburn and in burns caused by heat, these two conditions differ in almost every other aspect, as pointed out by Urbach in 1996.³ Sunburn is initiated by the absorption of ultraviolet radiation by chromophores in the upper layers of the skin. Damage to DNA is the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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