A review of three cases of mobile blast: The new culprit of hand injury

ABSTRACT

Although blast injuries are common with war; cooking gas; firecracker, mobile phone blast cases are increasing in number in last couple of years. We present 3 cases of mobile blast in 3 children causing injury to dominant hand in them.

KEY WORDS

Amputation - mobile blast - hand injury

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