Abstract
Isolated blast injuries of the face are rare and injuries due to blasting of low voltage
batteries in or near the mouth are even rarer. We present here a case of an 18 year
old boy who suffered from extensive injury and tissue loss involving the lower half
of the face due to blasting of a low voltage battery used in a flash light due to
apparent shortcircuiting when the boy put the two short wires connected to a low voltage
battery in his mouth in order to deinsulate them. This resulted in a blast leading
to severe injuries and tissue loss which included the lower nose, upper lip, all teeth,
both cheeks, floor of mouth tongue, chin, the maxilla and mandible.
KEYWORDS
Blast injury - defect - delto pectoral flap - pectoralis major osteo-myo-cutaneous
flap - reconstruction - low voltage battery
