Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2017

MANGLED HAND INJURIES–MEANING OF PRESERVING THE REMNANTS

Dr. M. Sugumar, Dr G S Radhakrishnan, Dr Kaushik Kumar E

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 Mangled hand injuries are very common devastating injuries encountered in our institute that result in total/near total hindrance of hand function.This study includes 19 patients of varying age group  dominantly  male sex from August 2015 to October 2016. Majority of patients are from industrial sector. These group of patients were present with different presentation of remnants of the hand either finger or multiple digits/remnants.Preoperatively they were counselled for reconstruction/amputation. All the patients want to retain the remnants of the hand whichever is present even after explaining about the reduction of Disability percentage which will be useful to their future compensation benefit.They were managed by standard principles of reconstruction.Post operatively again they were evaluated and they are happy with the remnants as it avoids prosthesis and they have some useful supportive hand function.

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DR.M.SUGUMAR, DR G S RADHAKRISHNAN, DR KAUSHIK KUMAR E, MANGLED HAND INJURIES–MEANING OF PRESERVING THE REMNANTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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