Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology and injury patterns of traumatic hand injury. Patients and methods: Total 536 traumatic, hand injuries involving 531 patients were treated in Hospital No.103 between 7/2009 and 12/2011. This is a descriptive retrospective study was included: age, sex, mechanism of injury, patterns and characters of injury. Results: Most patients were male (87.2 percent) and young (mean age of 31.9 years and 74.4 percent under 40 years old). The most common mechanism trauma was working accident (59.5 percent), following were sharp devices (16.2 percent) and traffic accident (14.6 percent). Injuries occurred often while working with wood products processing machines (28.2 percent), industrial machines (28.8 percent), food products processing machines (9.1 percent) and handed machines (11.0 percent). The types of injury were soft tissue wounds (11.0 percent), tend on injuries (16.8 percent), opened fractures (21.1 percent), amputations (13.6 percent), contusions (14.7 percent) and combined injuries (22.8 percent).
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