• Joseph Bakhach, Ghassan Abu-Sitta, and Saad Dibo.
• Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand and Microsurgery, American University of Beirut Medical Centre, P.O. Box 11 - 0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon. Electronic address: yb11@aub.edu.lb.
• Injury. 2013 Mar 1;44(3):305-12.

AbstractOver recent years, hand surgeons in the Middle East and Arabic region have particularly had to deal with an increasing number of war blast injuries to the upper extremity, in the acute, subacute and chronic phases. Many have been referred from War Zone countries such as Iraq and, more recently, Syria, where the resources to treat such complex injuries are scarce. The present article is a comprehensive review of the basic principles of management of blast injuries based on the available literature merged with the authors' personal experience of these injuries. The state of the art in treatment of blast injuries to the hand, from ammunition physics and wound ballistics to radiological investigation and, ultimately, the principles of surgical management are discussed.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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