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War injuries of the hand cause great morbidity and loss in manpower. Because these wounds are not fatal and often apparently innocuous, the priority level for evacuation and early surgery is low. In patients with complex multiple injuries, treatment of the hand injury receives little or no priority.

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  1. Rambam Health Care Campus and Bruce Rappaport, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Shalom Stahl

  2. Hand Surgery Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Edward Calif

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  2. Faculty of Medicine, Deptartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, Haaliyah Street 8, Haifa, 31096, Israel

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Stahl, S., Calif, E. (2011). War Injuries of the Hand. In: Lerner, A., Soudry, M. (eds) Armed Conflict Injuries to the Extremities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16155-1_16

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