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Explosive weapons were mainly anti-personnel weapons in modern warfare, and fragments are the main killing factors of these weapons. Damage effect of the fragments is closely related to the shapes, speed, materials quality, and the environment in which people. We outline the epidemiology, characteristics, mechanisms and general principles in prevention and treatment of explosive fragment injury in this article. Especially, the injury characteristics of some fragments with special materials such as tungsten, depleted uranium, and some special environmental conditions such as high altitude, high heat, sea water immersion, were summarized. Our aim is to provide some references for the prevention and treatment of new high explosive fragment injury.
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Wang, J. (2017). The Features of Explosive Fragments Induced Injury and Management. In: Fu, X., Liu, L. (eds) Advanced Trauma and Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2425-2_6
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