Citation

Kamrani RS, Mehrpour SR, Aghamirsalim MR. Occup. Med. 2011; 61(7): 518-520.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14114, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/occmed/kqr082

PMID

21824997

Abstract

Occupational high-pressure injection injuries are not common but can be devastating, especially to the hand. Most of the time, full recovery does not occur. We present a case of high-pressure injection injury to the hand in a patient who worked in a shoe-making factory. As far as we know, this massive involvement of a limb in a high-pressure plastic injection injury has never been reported in the literature. Better controls are required to prevent injection injuries and when they do occur, a high index of suspicion is required with immediate referral for surgical review.

Language: en