• Injury · Mar 2004

    Case Reports

    Blast injury caused by a booby-trapped cellular phone.

    • Oren Lapid, Ruth Lapid-Gortzak, Ronen Glesinger, Tova Monos, and Gad Shaked.
    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, P.O. Box 151, Beer-Sheba 84101, Israel. olapid@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
    • Injury. 2004 Mar 1;35(3):336-8.

    AbstractTerrorists are recently using cellular phones to remotely detonate bombs. A patient was injured while assembling a bomb connected to a cellular phone. The patient sustained combined injury to the head and to the dominant hand which held the phone. Amputation of the hand was required, the facial injuries were reconstructed. The characteristics of this unusual type of injury are described and compared to injuries caused by other bombs and explosive devices.

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