Blast injury caused by a booby-trapped cellular phone.
Terrorists 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.
Lapid
Oren
O
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
Lapid-Gortzak
Ruth
R
Glesinger
Ronen
R
Monos
Tova
T
Shaked
Gad
G
D000328:Adult; D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D040421:Cell Phone; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000209:etiology*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D023481:Terrorism