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Trauma of the Hand and Wrist

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Two major factors account for the increase in the number of hand and wrist injuries in austere settings: (1) the recent, rapid increase in motorization and mechanization in populations for which safety measures are unrecognized, nonexistent, or ignored and (2) increased longevity that has increased the number of fragility fractures [1].

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  1. Columbus, MT, USA

    Michelle Foltz

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, CO, USA

    Robert Derkash

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  1. San Francisco General Hospital Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopedic Surgery Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David A. Spiegel

  3. Columbus, MT, USA

    Michelle Foltz

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Foltz, M., Derkash, R. (2020). Trauma of the Hand and Wrist. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13290-3_20

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